| West Bend 41300 Hi-Rise Electronic Dual-Blade Breadmaker | 
| Brand: West Bend
Category: Kitchen
List Price: $119.99
Buy New: $73.94
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Seller: Electronics Warehouse Outlet
Rating:  reviews
Sales Rank: 659
Color: Black
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 17.5
Dimensions (in): 18 x 10.5 x 11.8
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MPN: 41300
Model: 41300
UPC: 072244413007
EAN: 0072244413007
ASIN: B002JM0ZWK
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| ○ | Electronic dual-blade bread machine for making bakery-style artisan bread at home | | ○ | 4 horizontally shaped loaf sizes--1 pound, 1-1/2 pounds, 2 pounds, and 2-1/2 pounds | | ○ | 11 pre-programmed settings; 3 crust shades; digital control panel; 12-hour delay timer | | ○ | Measuring cup and spoon, knead-blade removal tool, and instructions with recipes included | | ○ | Measures 18 by 10-1/2 by 11-4/5 inches; 1-year limited warranty |
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WB Hi-Rise Breadmaker
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| Customer Reviews:
 All the power and capability of a high end Zojirushi made affordable! December 25, 2009
Samantha Quinn (Denver, CO)
70 out of 74 found this review helpful
I came to machine made bread late, and it was a long road to get here. You could say I was a purist stuck in times past, or I was just waiting for my questions to be answered. I know a bunch of people who swear by thier bread machines, and several folks who've had one die and miss it terribly. Me, I had no real problems making bread the old fashioned way so to speak. I learned how to make bread from my Mom when I was a little girl, and that always worked for me.
I'd read that for features and function the Zojirushi was the top of the line. Great, but there was no way I could cost justify that kind of money for a bread machine. Plus, while it met most of my specifications, it missed on one important one, loaf size. For me a requirment was a horiontal loaf, and an ideal was maximum function and control. Including loaf size and crust.
Enter the Hi-Rise. It's selectable for four different loaf sizes 1, 1.5, 2 and 2.5 pound loaves. It has three different crust settings that give one control over color and thickness of the crust, accessed with the temp button.
With a horizontal loaf pan, and dual blades, it makes it simple and easy to prepare just about anything. The large windows in the top make it easy to watch how your bread is doing and the display is easy to read and keeps you informed about where in your journey each loaf is. It even has prgrammability in terms of when the bread machine starts, and even allows you to create a custom profile for "Home Made" bread. Wake up to the smell of bread baking? Done! Now you can program the coffee machine to start your morning cup of java, and have fresh baked bread waiting too. Spoil me rotten why don't you!
The acid test of course was actually making bread with it. Took it out of the box, used the basic white bread recipe that came with the manual, hit start and walked away. I looked in now and again to see what it was doing, but I did not hover, chosing instead to believe that this would work just fine and I'd have a wonderful smell to tell me that all was right in my bread machine.
Soon, the unmistakable aroma of rising dough filled my senses, and sometime later, baking bread. When done I took it out of the machine and placed a wonderful looking and sounding loaf on the cooling rack and waited a bit before putting on water for tea. When I say sounding, one of the things my Mom taught me was to tap on the side of the crust lightly like with produce to get an idea of how the bread was inside. A properly cooked loaf should have a slightly hollow sound to it when tapped. Sure enough, this one did.
When the time was right, I poured a cup of tea to steep, waited for it to be ready and cut a slice out of my warm, crusty, perfect, loaf of bread. It was crusty on the outside as it should be, and warm, slightly moist, springy bread on the inside. I grew up in New England, and one of the things I love is "Country Style" bread. Slightly heavier, and moister than your run of the mill bread, it has a wonderful taste, texture and weight to it not generally available outside of New England.
Before I even tasted this I knew I was in for a treat from the smell, feel and texture of bread. The first morsel was a reward beyond my expectations! "Country Style" bread by pushing a button. Plus because I controled the ingredients it is healthy too. I used 1% milk, and "Smart Balance" butter substitute along with Unbleached King Arthur Bread Flour and Fleischmen's "Highly Active Yeast" in the making of my first loaf. Perfect "Country Style" loaf in terms of all criteria. Taste, Texture, Smell, Weight, Crust, Color and Moisture.
It is easily the simplest loaf I've ever made. Put the materials in the pan, select options, press start and walk away. I'm thrilled with this bread machine! Hundreds less than it's nearest Zojirushi in terms of price and more features. Needless to say, I'll make more of this so called basic bread again, because now I can have "Country Style" bread anytime I want it despite no longer living in New England. So far I've only made one loaf, but I know hundreds more are to follow, next I'm going to go for a New York Deli style Rye.
The West End Hi-Rise is a gem at twice the price, and honestly has more features then the high end Zojirushi. Plus this has one touch selectable loaf size & crust type which the Zojirushi does not.
Would I reccomend this again? Oh yes, without question.
Great bread maker November 25, 2009
Jane Morgan (Central Coast, CA, USA)
32 out of 32 found this review helpful
I purchased this to replace a 13-15 year old Z brand that finally died. I liked the fact that it has two kneading blades and can do gluten free and lo carb bread (maybe they all can these days, but this one has a special cycle).
The first loaf I made (or rather it made) was a basic white bread and it turned out perfectly; the second and third were wheat-yogurt loaves - also nicely done. The third did collapse a little bit when baking, but living at the coast the humidity is high and I expected to have to tinker with the recipes. One thing the manual doesn't tell you is why it beeps at the end of one of the rises - I assume that's when you should add fruit/nuts (that's what a couple of other models do). So far so good and I can recommend this model.
strong motor October 16, 2009
Macro chef (Oviedo, FL)
39 out of 41 found this review helpful
I got this at Walmart. I'm impressed with the dual blades. They knead quite a bit of flour. I only baked with it once, but it performed well. I mostly use it to knead artisan wetter dough and it does a fine job, better than my mixer. Can't comment on durability, I've had it a month and use it every other day, sometimes twice a day. Can't program it as completely as the Zo, but for half the price, you can somewhat make your own program. Manual says it has a pause function, when in fact, it does not. (misprint according to manufacturer) Otherwise, I'm pretty happy.
The recipe for bagel dough is also for pizza dough. November 18, 2009
K. Robertson
24 out of 24 found this review helpful
At first I was mad because the recipes in the manual did not include pizza dough. However, I used the bagel dough recipe, and it proved to be WONDERFUL for pizza.
Other than that, this product does exactly what it was designed to do: It makes bread and dough. It's quiet, doesn't "walk", and I've had no problems at all.
If you like thinner crust pizza, just cut the amount of sugar to 1 tbsp and amount of yeast to 1 tsp.
Considering what you will save, making your own pizzas vs ordering delivery, this bread machine could pay for itself in a short time.
 MMMM.... Good Bread, but............. December 16, 2009
Steven Levin (Plymouth Meeting, PA USA)
20 out of 20 found this review helpful
Very easy yo opporate. All recipe books we've used work with this machine. NONE of the loafs have "sunk" and it really does a great job with the mixing times and different bread textures, ie.e a rye is done differently in the machie than white bread, and you get perfect results! Our kitchen is stainless steel and black. 5 - star
Update 3/26/10 - After about 5 months of use (2 loafs per week) it stopped working... it powers up, runs the program, but the motor doesn't turn on... it is under warrentee but we've e-mailed and called for 5 days now with NO response.
Today, we called AGAIN and after tring some phone aided suggestions we all realize... it's broke. Unforturnalty, they are out of stock on this item and we will recieve a replacment in just over a month... oh well. Seemed like a good deal, and worked great (while working) I guess you get what you pay for... lowered my original 5 - star to a 2 - star, as can't be used, but hopefully a new one is coming. I will update again, hopefully in about a month.
Update 6/1/10 - We received a new bread machine about 3 weeks ago. This unit looks identical as the first but; the bread quality is not consistent as it was in the first machine. It doesn't seem to get as hot as it needs to, and the mixing paddles are much stiffer than the original one, so I don't think the dough is getting a good enough workout and a majority of the loaves have sunk in the middle, never an issue on the original machine. Lastly this unit has several slight scratch marks over it in the black plastic and in the stainless steel... refurbished? Who knows...
Final thoughts... For the price I guess you could take a chance... Although it looks nice and has some great features it's not consistent. I might suggest saving for a higher quality machine as the bottom line is - if it doesn't work well, you not going to use it... unless you only want to make bread bowls. Staying at 2 stars.
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