I make my own bread when I have the time using a Kenwood Chef and doing it all by hand but our local Aldi is selling a breadmaker for £29.99 which is just soooo cheap. I know people say you get what you pay for but it comes with a 3 year warranty so that can’t be bad. Has anyone got a really cheap breadmaker and is happy with it.

Mine cost a bit more than that and says Morphy Richards – but they all come out of the same factory in China. The stuff breadmakers create is slightly different to what you can make by hand – and it’s sideways on with a hole where you pulled the paddle out. But they do a useful job. I use mine to make panetone which I’ve never been able to do successfully by hand.