Black & Decker B2300 Bread Machine
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- Max Loaf Capacity: 3 lbs
- Timer Capability: With Timer
- No. of different Programs: 10
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What a piece of garbage!
Pros
It's white.
Cons
Engineered for assured failure or maybe just abysmal quality control, either way it's awful.
Recommended it?
No
The Bottom Line:
This machine not only fails miserably at it's main task of mixing, kneading and rising the dough I am convinced that it is downright dangerous. Don't buy this machine.
My old Walmart brand ( Select Edition ) bread machine has given me years of excellent service but it is starting to look a bit dated so I decided to try out the Black and Decker B2300 bread machine mostly because it was on sale at Sears.
I got it home and was anxious to try it out expecting to be wowed by the technological advancements but it was not to be. To start with there was the minor annoyance of the controls which one would expect to be lighted not only because they look as though they are designed to be lighted but because it just makes sense. The settings are difficult to read unless you have perfect vision and lots of light.
I selected one of the recipes for a 3lb loaf from the paltry selection of recipes supplied in the overall utterly inadequate manual and followed the directions to a T, even making sure to test the water temperature. Well, all my efforts to follow the recipe were pointless because as it turns out the machine is not capable of making a 3 lb loaf of bread no matter how closely you follow the recipe.
The motor struggled throughout the entire process and the sound of gears grinding was unbearable. After a while there was the smell of the motor burning and I grew concerned that this piece of crap was about to burst into flames. I decided to remove the dough and let it chug on without the strain of actually doing any work while I kneaded the dough by hand and I then placed the dough back into the machine for the rising and baking stages. The machine managed this part of the job successfully but then again mankind has been managing that feat without any machine at all for thousands of years so it is hardly anything to brag about. We buy a bread machine to deal with the tedious process of mixing, kneading and rising the dough and this machine not only fails miserably at that task but I am convinced that it is downright dangerous.
How Black and Decker manages to stay in business flogging garbage like this is beyond me and rather than following their insert with the product that pleads with the customer to contact them directly with problems instead of returning it to the store I intend to return it to the store and make a special point of addressing my concerns directly to the store manager. Maybe if everyone does the same then less stores will carry these low quality B & D products and B & D will be forced to either improve product quality or fade away altogether either of which would be a good thing in my opinion.
I got it home and was anxious to try it out expecting to be wowed by the technological advancements but it was not to be. To start with there was the minor annoyance of the controls which one would expect to be lighted not only because they look as though they are designed to be lighted but because it just makes sense. The settings are difficult to read unless you have perfect vision and lots of light.
I selected one of the recipes for a 3lb loaf from the paltry selection of recipes supplied in the overall utterly inadequate manual and followed the directions to a T, even making sure to test the water temperature. Well, all my efforts to follow the recipe were pointless because as it turns out the machine is not capable of making a 3 lb loaf of bread no matter how closely you follow the recipe.
The motor struggled throughout the entire process and the sound of gears grinding was unbearable. After a while there was the smell of the motor burning and I grew concerned that this piece of crap was about to burst into flames. I decided to remove the dough and let it chug on without the strain of actually doing any work while I kneaded the dough by hand and I then placed the dough back into the machine for the rising and baking stages. The machine managed this part of the job successfully but then again mankind has been managing that feat without any machine at all for thousands of years so it is hardly anything to brag about. We buy a bread machine to deal with the tedious process of mixing, kneading and rising the dough and this machine not only fails miserably at that task but I am convinced that it is downright dangerous.
How Black and Decker manages to stay in business flogging garbage like this is beyond me and rather than following their insert with the product that pleads with the customer to contact them directly with problems instead of returning it to the store I intend to return it to the store and make a special point of addressing my concerns directly to the store manager. Maybe if everyone does the same then less stores will carry these low quality B & D products and B & D will be forced to either improve product quality or fade away altogether either of which would be a good thing in my opinion.
