Comments on: Kenwood BM210 White Breadmaker Review

By: David Rempel

David Rempel — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 22:46:46 +0000

Thank you all for saving me a lot of trouble. I just bought this yesterday; tonight I made my first loaf and stayed up until 1am so I could try it. Of course it was dense and gross, and I was ready to start over, thinking I must have made a mistake. Thankfully I looked for advice first, and came across this page which will now save me hours or days of frustration. Now I will just return it and choose another model.

By: Gautam

Gautam — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 06:22:17 +0000

Hi All,

I bought this Breadmaker recently for my Father (in India) as this was the only breadmaker available and that too on 1 website. Breadmaking in homes is extremely rare at this point in India, hence it’s easy to see why 99% people/store owners do not even know what a breadmaker is.

Anyways, I have been using Breadman TR520 Bread Maker in USA since January of this year with 100% success rate. I hope to solve your problems through my message.

After using 2 recipes given in the Manual that came with “Kenwood BM210″ – I was left disappointed. Kenwood really needs to fix this ASAP and have a baking expert update the recipe book. The loaves I cooked after following the steps/recipe listed in the Kenwood book – were very low, failed to rise and more or less uncooked.

I then finally used my own recipe that I use with my US “Breadman TR520 Bread Maker” and the loaf came out much better, but still did not rise as much as my US loaves rise. But I plan to experiment more with Yeast QTY. You guys can try my recipe and let me know how it goes for you. The loaf tasted awesome (same as my US loaf does) and rose twice as much as my previous loaf (that I made after following kenwood steps).

Here is my Recipe
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Bread Recipe

1 level cup lukewarm water
1 Egg, room temperature
3/4 Teaspoon (TSP) Salt
2 Tablespoon (TBS) olive oil
2 Tablespoon (TBS) Maple Syrup/Honey
3 Cups leveled bread flour:

1 ½ cups Bread Flour/Maida/Refined Flour
1 ½ cups Whole Wheat Flour

1 ½ Teaspoon (TSP) Yeast on top of flour (make a well by digging and then pour YEAST in)

Bread-maker Program

PRESS the OPEN BOOK button and PRESS Thrice to select PROGRAM 3 (will be displayed in LCD)

PRESS BREAD LOAF button to SELECT Light Setting (Arrow on top will be on left-most side)

PRESS START

After Beep >> Add Pecans/Seeds as needed

By: duilio cannavo

duilio cannavo — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 09:12:34 +0000

This machine is not provided with sufficient instruction, kenwood has no help towards this machines failure to produce bread all it gives you is a stodgy piece of half baked flour no matter how i try to adjust i must have fed the dustbin at least 70 kgs of stodgy bread to date.
shame on you kenwood.
other bread makers work beautifully i will never buy any kenwood product again.

By: Elaine

Elaine — Mon, 02 May 2011 07:23:02 +0000

This is ridiculous! How is it that no-one has had any success. I bought the breadmaker this weekend looking forward to fresh bread every morning, so far so good, but what about all the other programmes. Can’t someone do something about this?

By: Mags Lamb

Mags Lamb — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 05:12:42 +0000

I agree with David Townsend and others,
I bought my BM210 in 2008 and had no success with it, every single bread I made was a flop. My bread machine at the moment is a big white elephant in my kitchen.
Mags

By: Meriam

Meriam — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 11:33:08 +0000

I agree with all of you guys. I bought the same model BM 210 kenwood breadmaker tried so many times to bake nice breads but did not turn out right very much disappointed. Hopefully kenwood could help out with the right recipes for this model so that my machine will not be lying idle.

By: Meriam

Meriam — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 11:30:52 +0000

By: Michael Williams

Michael Williams — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:34:42 +0000

I agree with all of those that write here. After my Coop made machine (after good service), had given up.
I decided to buy a Kenwood BM 210. This was solely on the bases of Kenwood’s good name. I’m now of the opinion that I have made a mistake, as the BM210 for me has been a total flop. The bread recipes, if one can call them recipes do no-matter how precise the ingredient measurement, “just don’t work”. Reading all the messages here, has convinced me that the BM210 has a general construction fault and this fault should be addresses by Kenwood, but were do we complain? Trying to contact Kenwood over the net, is impossible. What I have, is a well “designed piece of junk”

By: Subra

Subra — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 11:03:57 +0000

I bought a Kenwood BM 210 breadmaker thinking that I could make good wholemeal bread. As no recipes were given for this model, I had to use bread making recipes for other Kenwood models which failed to produce results. My machine is lying idle. Wasted my money. Kenwood should have tried bread recipes for this Model before selling this model. It is not late at least Kenwood should take the initiative to come up with bread recipes for this machine and email them to the customers. If I had known this problem earlier I would have gone for other brands.

By: Betty Sam

Betty Sam — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 08:27:41 +0000

Adding to the list of dissatisfied customers.Recently bought this machine and have the problems that most of the customers have complained here. The bread comes out really dense and the top always crumbles down. Do we need to remove the kneading pin when the kneading is over? Would really appreciate any help regarding this.