Had two rubbish gluten free loaves, went straight in the bin, didnt buy any more flour. All the other recipes are great and have tried most, but I bought this machine especially for the gluten free and gave my previous one to a friend who is thrilled. I do love the 2051 and use it several times a week. The cheese and oat loaf and the fruit breads are our favourites, from the previous machine book.

Was a little skeptical at first, both at how much I would use this and the strong positive reviews. But, the reviews are spot on, this machine runs on autopilot and even an idiot like me and make great loaves of bread. Seriously, just follow the recipe and measure ingredients out and you can't go wrong.

Am making bread daily as it is that easy to do. The delay function is awesome.

This is our 3rd machine over 20 years of home bread making and by far the best. It is still going strong after 2 years. The only function I miss from a previous machine, and this is minor, is a fan at the finish to cool the bread so you don't have to immediately take the loaf out of the machine. Also the smallest loaf is still pretty large so we rarely make the larger 2 loaf sizes. I use the delay function a lot: For some reason our bread is better when the ingredients are sitting in the machine say overnight for morning bread. Maybe it's to do with the temperature of the ingredients.

Third bread machine I've had and this is by far the best, easy to use and makes great bread. I have made all three sizes and they have all been good.I would buy this product again and would recommend it to friends. I bought it on the recommendation of 2friends.

The Big Wharehouse.com replacement parts online, want $124 for the bucket, $24 for the blade and $27 for postage. That’s $175 – almost the cost of the new product. What a scam!
Makes a good French loaf though - nice and crusty with soft white and light dough, the 6 hours it take the machine to make is worth it.

I love this machine. Its easy to use and makes delicious bread. I did find the recipe given in the book used a bit too much salt so I added a little less and that turned out to be perfect for my taste. If you are looking for a bread maker I highly recommend this machine.

After reading reviews, and because of my good experience with the quality of Panasonic appliances. I purchased this unit. It is so easy to use and clean. I bake with the Laudke mixes, they produce a lovely, natural tasting loaf. If able, I prefer the L size. After speaking to Laudke, they advised me to use all their premixes on the number 1 program, so will try this to see if the bread is better this way. I am saving so much money by baking my own bread, and prefer food with minimal preservatives.

Very happy with breadmaker, simple controls, just need to know what menu to use for a wrights cake mix, use wrights bread mix no problem, but because there is no cake menu on the breadmaker tried several times. Done it once, but can't remember how I done it, the bread is fantastic.

I don't know why for the past 3 raisin loaves, using spelt flour, they turn out with all the raisins burnt as they are all located on the outsides of the loaves. I have success in making raisin loaves with this machine before. Loaves with walnuts & flaxseeds come out well. Can you advise what can I do to resolve this problem? Otherwise, machine is good. Sad if I cannot make raisin loaves anymore. Please help.

This makes very good bread although the shape is a little awkward. The bread is bulky. Cut it in half from top to bottom then slice. The recipes that come with the maker work very well for bread but the Chocolate cake recipe is incorrect with the quantities I think. Anyhow, all in all, it does a good job & fresh home made bread is its own reward.

Made 30+loaves. I'd like to experiment. But the set menus don't appear to allow meddling. No viewing window, no pause facility, problems like big holes, collapsed top.
Crust variations only work for some menus, the darkest setting is still pretty light.
Any ideas on how too make small variations welcome.

very happy so far with my Panasonic..better success than with the two previous machines I had.. have made two excellent loaves.. must commend the people where I buy my bread mix, I am sure that has helped me a lot.. for anyone in Western Australia All About Bread in greenwood is fantastic.. cant wait to make my next loaf of bread.

So I have been making bread every couple of weeks for a few years in a sunbeam machine, and I did enjoy the bread but it was never great, always a little bit crumbly and not all that elastic. I just thought that was how it goes with a homemade bread-maker. Anyway it died and I bought this Panasonic second hand on ebay and the bread is SO MUCH BETTER! I have made 10 loaves now and everyone has been perfect. Build quality far surpasses the old sunbeam, and although it takes 5 hours for a multi-grain loaf its definitely worth it.