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QUALITY OF WORK: Hitachi bread makers differ from others in the presence of a fan, due to which hot air is distributed evenly throughout the entire volume. And to adjust the temperature required to rise the dough, a sensor is built into the oven, and depending on its readings, the heating automatically changes.
Therefore, the baking quality remains equally high when the room temperature changes from 5 to 27 degrees. If you start baking in 30-degree heat - after all, you always want to eat, use chilled water.
The ratio between flour and water is of fundamental importance in baking bread. With high humidity, bread turns out with a flat or sagging top. To avoid this, you need to use more flour than indicated in the recipe.
 The “repertoire” of the oven is huge: over 35 types of bread. In addition to the usual white - rye, Borodino or with caraway seeds. Whole wheat bread is rich in fiber, B vitamins and vitamin E. Bread with juices or purees (vegetable or fruit) is very good and healthy. Bread from such an oven will never become boring, because you can modify it endlessly with all sorts of additives: sweet and spicy, fruity and nutty, with vegetables, cheese and bacon ...
For dessert, there is also a large selection of goodies: tender buns, delicious bagels and croissants, soft pretzels with salt. The oven will prepare the dough for them, and you can bake it in the oven or microwave. A special mode has pizza dough. And the baker bakes the biscuit, cake or charlotte by itself. And he cooks fruit jam remarkably simply and quickly: a little over an hour and the jam is ready - tender, fragrant and already chilled.
CONVENIENCE OF OPERATION: depending on the appetite and the number of eaters, the oven will cook a small, medium or large loaf. And the degree of crispness of the crust is easy to choose for every taste, since it has 5 levels.
Thanks to the delay start function, the bread always ripens exactly for the meal, no matter where food is placed. The maximum delay time is 13 hours, which allows you to taste fresh bread even with an early breakfast. For example, if you are going to have breakfast at 7 in the morning, there is no need to get up in the middle of the night - food can be pledged even at 6 in the evening by setting the number 13 on the timer.
To prevent the hot bread from settling down from the sudden temperature drop, it is cooled by the air flow created by the fan for several minutes after the end of baking. The fan continues to run for another 30 minutes to keep the bread dry if you don't take it out of the oven right away.
The intuitive control panel is very user-friendly. Moreover, the oven responds with a corresponding inscription on the display and a sound signal for each call (pressing of buttons). And sometimes she herself will remind you that it's time to add additives or take out the finished bread. The progress of the process can be followed both on the display and through the window, which, however, is not particularly necessary, but interesting. The only thing that can get in the way is power failures. If they last no more than 30 seconds, the stove will save the set mode in memory and continue working from the point where it was interrupted.
PRICE: $160,6.
SUMMARY
ADVANTAGES: The “repertoire” of the oven is enormous: there are more than 35 types of bread alone. 5 shades of crust color will satisfy even the most fastidious. Thanks to a dough sensor that monitors the temperature of the food and the ambient air, optimal conditions are created for the best dough proving. The built-in fan ensures uniform heating during baking and cooling of ready-made bread, which allows you to maintain its structure and does not allow it to become damp.
LIMITATIONS: perhaps 30 seconds is not enough to eliminate a power failure.
GENERAL ASSESSMENT: of course, you can live without a bread machine, since you can always buy bread. But with the advent of such a multifunctional device in the house, the quality of life, especially among bread lovers, will increase many times over.
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