This review is way overdue as I purchased my breadmaker in January 2020. After dietary changes by choice (healthier eating), we experienced not only the difference in our health (obviously homemade bread contains different ingredients to standard bread sold in stores) - which is an incumbent benefit - but very consistent results once we researched our ingredients and going organic. This is a good breadmaker for the novice or the more well versed.Fruit loaf, spelt, malthouse, nothing is off-limits. Pizza dough and focaccia bread is an easy win also (soft sultana cookies were made by hand).

This is the best bread maker we have had

I suppose it's not really fair to write a review when I don't have a machine that's functioning. It's clearly faulty; dispenser doesn't activate, lights are showing for stages that shouldn't be happening yet (eg "bake" when it's still in "rise" phase) results are horribly mixed, despite using same ingredients and same recipes and there's a horrible intermittent grinding noise. Contacted customer service who asked me about the protein content of my flour and expiry date on my yeast - how these affect the functioning of the machine I have no idea. I replied with the information requested (both satisfactory) but have had no response. As they don't have any machines to sell at the moment I'm surprised that they don't have time to deal with dissatisfied customers. I look longingly at the photos of perfect bread from other users - but I can only dream.

good product, make really good bread and pizza dought and can be used to do lost of dough for different pastry or whatever you like, seen some comments about tensioning the belt and they are right, i done it as well and works good. if u plan to do a big bread 1.25 kg them the belt will slip,so you gona have to tension the belt...just fallow the stept from previous comments.

It's a good machine smart and very easy to use. I had a different make before and It was very complicated to use and I was given up on trying with bread machine but I saw this one and I say to my wife let's try this one and we are very happy.

It’s big. It’s heavy. However we were having great fun baking bread when on the 3rd recipe the Teflon coating started to peel which made it impossible to use. In fact I had many sleepless nights worried some might have got into our second recipe without us noticing. Massive fail :’(

Now we’re in lockdown I decided to finally buy a bread maker. Always have lots of flour around anyway so thought I might as well. Actually only used ingredients that had expired (best before date anyway). I’ve made pizza dough and a normal white loaf so far and both have been lovely. The pizza dough was immediately rolled thin and baked in a normal oven at the top temperature. It was great, nice and thin and crispy like I prefer. As for the white loaf I was slightly disappointed that there wasn’t a freshly baked smell that I could tell but the loaf was great, lovely and soft. The only problem I have is slicing the bread without making a mess.

Loved this. Just better bread than other machines I've had.

We have used so many brands and after thismachine I can absolutely say that for a bread maker nothing can be better if not done by Sage (Breville)...

I love this SO much - it's so easy to use and makes perfect bread every time! My 5-year-old pretty much does it all by himself, and I'm sure we have already saved the cost of the machine on the amount of bread we haven't had to buy from the supermarket, not to mention packaging waste etc. The best of the best. Would recommend to everyone (and indeed, I have done!)

Expensive for what it is, all the others do the same thing. Only advantage is the blade flattens.

This technically makes bread, but with little flavour and crust development. The heating element is at the bottom and so the bread also cooks unevenly.

Machine is good but the folding paddle has broken. Trying to get a replacement near impossible. Sage haven't got any in stock. Machine is useless.

 Takes a bit of getting used to. Our first 2 attempts were an epic failure as we got our flour portions wrong. But having researched on the differences between “ml” & “grams” in bread flour measuring, we nailed it. So do bare in mind if you are a novice in baking that you have to get everything right as the machine won’t do that for you. It’s a good investment for sure as we get to make our custom bread and pizza with non dairy cheese as well.

Absolutely love this. So easy to use and you can adapt the programs to different flours etc. Still cannot make sourdough though

I recommend it. After more than a year of use still going strong. I did jam, different types of bread (white, whole-wheat or a combination between them), pasta dough with very good results. The fruit dispenser sometimes doesn't open completely, but usually no problems, just need to double check. You can do more or less with it. Good for small or big families.

I used to have the panasonic one. So I am not new to bread machines with a gluten free setting. So far this machine has failed to cook the top of the bread. The sides and base come out well done even on the lighted crust setting while the top looks like it is still dough but that is the loaf cooked!! I question the rises on this setting. It has 3 rise cycles but I think 2 is enough. They the end of the 3rd cycle the middle of the top of the loaf has sunk after it raised really well. So the rises are too long.it said you can pause cycles and adjust the programmes but you can't do that to the GF setting as far as I have tried and tested. If I make the larger loaf using 750g flour as on the back of the packet (doves farm) it spills over the pan onto the heating eliment which them burns if it goes to cook setting. If you keep an eye on it and stop the machine to clean it, it is not easy to clean and the bread is then not able to be continued obviously so you waste it. I have tried a shops own brand flour also and the results and troubles are no different from the Doves farm. I am quite dosapointed in this machine to be honest a lot of money to spend and not have the top of the bread cook regardles of size load you cook. I did try brushing with milk. Same result. I tried brushing with egg, same result. It just doesn't cook the top of the loaf.

Makes great bread. Choices are wide ranging using the settings; size, crust etc, at the back is a slot to keep the recipe books. I make seeded bread and the dispenser releases them during the process. There is also a little light inside at the press of a button. Generally you end up with yummy bread, a uniform rise across the baking pan and minimal hole in the base where the paddle was.

This bread machine is by far the best I have ever used. If you want the perfect bread then take note of the recipes and the preface by Heston. Beautiful bread with dough improver and exact measurements.

I have had several Bread Machines and even though this is a bit expensive, for me, it is like all the other Sage products that I have, well worth the money. I have not (Yet) had a bad result form this machine.