Wouldn’t you love to come home to find a lusty loaf of Beer Rye bread waiting for you, or perhaps you’d like to awaken to the intoxicating aroma of Apple Walnut bread? It’s all very possible with this easy to operate, full-service bread machine. It’s extremely versatile, allowing you to make dough for pasta, pizza, or pretzels, and even jam, as well as a wide variety of breads.
User Ratings and Reviews
The description of this breadmaker is misleading. According to the site this machine makes 1, 1 1/2, and 2 pound loaves of bread. The box states it makes 1 1/2 or 2 pound loaves. The manual is titled “2 pound breadmaker” and did not include a model number. I did a lot of research before I bought this machine as I wanted one that would make 1 pound loaves. This seemed like a good machine and I could make 3 different size loaves. Some of the lower starred reviews complained about the quality of the bread it produced. Cooking is an art, baking is a science so I thought maybe they just measured incorrectly. The manual is not easy to follow, and after further research (after I received the machine and read the manual) a big complaint about this machine is the recipes in the manual do not produce good bread. The manual is copyrighted 1999! I contacted Oster about the ability of this machine to produce 1 pound loaves since this information is no where in the manual. The representative said “yes, it will make 1 pound loaves, you just have to reduce the recipes by half”. I mentioned that the copyright was 1999 and she laughed and said “yeah, they don’t update the manuals very often”. I told her about the recipe complaints and she said “I can’t really comment on that; but they don’t update the manuals”. Why would Oster produce a new breadmaker with an old, out of date, 10 year old manual? It does not come with any measuring devices. Most of the included recipes are not suitable for the “expressbake” cycle. We had a great bread machine by Regal. Used it for years and years. No problems whatsoever! And then the bread pan cracked. We couldn’t find a replacement so I did some research to find a new one. The Oster 5838 was available for a good price. I read pro and con reviews. The main problem mentioned in the cons were that the loaf would fall. But there were also tips on what to do to correct for fallen loaves. We figured we could adjust the recipe as the tips suggested and get the loaf to come out. So we bought it.
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