Panasonic Sd-p2001 Recipe

[Manases Blakemore]

Ibought bread maker last month and when I posted photos in my stories, many of you asked about my views and asked to share recipe too. This recipe is what I follow in my bread maker. You can try the same in traditional way too, but this is customized for machine process where it undergoes a good amount of high speed kneading, given several hours of resting time. So you may want to put some effort and spend time to get similar results.

The bread maker is really helpful if you consume bread in regular basis. You can get a homemade bread just by dumping all ingredients, a push of button. No need to worry about the additives and preservatives that you kept worrying with store bought bread.

I am sharing this post just to help who are in dilemma to buy or not a bread maker. I am based in Singapore and this model is available here. If you are in other part of the world, try to find similar ones reading reviews that are available in the internet. This post can help you to get an idea about bread maker. And if you are buying go for fully automatic bread maker.

Last two years both myself and Vj started thinking how the store bought bread is soft, white and stays good for long time. I even have discussed with friends how unreal they stay as such and dream soft the store bought bread are.

Aj, Somehow he consumes bread in every weekday. He loves it as it is convenient for him to have it as quick bite in recess, after meal snack (yeah, after meals, we snack!?) So it had me worrying to give him store bought bread even though I swap white bread with mutli grain bread. After thinking for a while finally bought this bread maker.

After almost a month of usage, I am finally getting a hold of it. I am trying to explore various options of adding healthy ingredients to the bread. Already tried 50 50 maida and atta (wheat flour, all purpose flour) bread and convinced with the results. Also started sneaking a little of ground flax in it. For sandwiches, you might not even know the difference.

The standard recipe shared by the manufacturer calls out for half the flour and half the water added. How big is your load size? Wondering what proportion should I use when baking in Panasonic sd-p2001.

I had no kitchen scale initially. So I roughly converted to cup measurements with an online converter and made the bread. Now I bought one and I follow the recipe in their booklet to T and it turns out perfect. This model I am holding has capacity of 1 lb/ 1 pound.

I suggest you to follow the recipe given in their manual itself. Have you checked the troubleshooting tips given in the manual for possible things which go wrong with your bread?

I will suggest few points to check:

-Are you choosing the appropriate menu for your bread?

-Are you using the right yeast variety and right amount? - I use Bake King Instant yeast.

-Use the spoon provided with the machine as well as use the cup provided with the machine for measuring liquid.

-Instead of using milk powder (totally avoid it), try adding milk and see (Appropriate milk substitute measurements are given in manual recipe itself)

-Use cold water if your room temperature is above 28 deg C

Thanks for your reply, I am using the right menu option and not sure if the flour to water proportion is appropriate. The manual says 325gm flour with 240ml of water. After the dough is kneaded it still looks very watery to me - more like thick cake batter than the cake dough

Got the Panasonic ZB2502 as a Xmas gift and have loved it so far. Still trying to get the right flour (other than Maida). Thank you, Raks. Would love to get the fruit bread recipe. The one in the recipe booklet is great, but still not like the ones available in the Indian stores

Hi! I recently got a bread machine and tried all the recipes given in the recipe book that came with it. Most of them were failures. I tried your recipe and I loved it. I just swapped out the Maida for bread flour and kept everything else the same. It was an awesome bread!

Hoping someone has some help/suggestions! Have a Panasonic sd-zb2502 breadmaker for about 3.5 years now. Love it and has made bread perfectly for ages. Usually use a granary/seed Wessex mill flour, menu 4, medium. Ran out so used waitrose love life crunchy mixed seed flour (red packet). Also opened a new Allisons yeast tub. Used both of these before and don't remember issues - but bread this morning half the size and like a brick! Making a new one now but just had a peek and looks the same

Could it be the flour? Manual suggests this and also possibly humidity can affect? It is v hot in London today...or duff yeast (is there such a thing?). I'm irrationally put out by it, as it has always been fine and haven't bought bread in years (though will of course if have to, hungry DC to feed!)

Thanks in advance!

Thanks for suggestions! No the yeast is separately dispensed by the machine so not in contact, also it was a new tub with 2017 use by date but I guess still could be a bad one? I just don't know whether to try another one with different yeast and/or different flour?

I haven't used a bread maker for years, but when I did I do recall that during hot weather the loaves didn't rise anywhere near as well - something to do with the speed the yeast reacts or something.

Maybe try using a little less water if the humidity is an issue, and perhaps putting the ingredients in the fridge for a while beforehand?

View it like a science experiment and change one thing at a time until you work out what it is. I have a Panasonic breadmaker that is still going strong after 13 years, so you're probably OK there.

I changed from a tub of Allinson's yeast to the small packets of supermarket own brand so I'm never using something that has been open long. Even with a long use by date, it is easiest and to change the yeast first. You could also try using half lovely seeded flour, half strong white, to get a better rise.

I had something like that happen a while back.

After experimenting with changing the flour and then the yeast, the still in date yeast was to blame.

I now keep my yeast powder tin in the fridge till needed.

Yep, most likely the yeast. If it's gets too hot it basically kills it, whether or not it's in date. When we lived overseas I used to keep it in the fridge and even then it was hit and miss as even the transport or shelves in the shop could have been too hot.

It went straight in the fridge after I opened it but perhaps damage had been done beforehand? I've had it in the cupboard a fair while...thanks all! I'll attempt another overnight and let you know what happens (am sure you have better things to do though ha!)

As Somerset says, change one thing at a time - yeast/flour etc

Are you sure you put it on the correct programme? Probably the 5hr wholemeal one? It's unlikely to be a fault with the machine as it looks to have mixed and baked OK, it's definitely the rise that is the problem (it's a bit on a slope too)

Not sure what you mean when you say the yeast is separately dispensed. I have 2!! Panasonic machines and you put the yeast in the bottom before the flour. The dispenser on the top of the machine is only used for fruit/nuts etc.

Almost certainly the yeast. As others have said, even if it's still in date, and you've stored it in the fridge, it can still be 'duff'.

We have 'brick bread' quite often, even when we're using sachets-one sachet from the pack produces a beautiful, well risen loaf, and the next day another loaf can be a brick. We still eat it, though...it tastes fine, it's just a bit more 'rustic'

I'm too impatient. Another has gone on using new doves yeast. Fingers crossed!

Ps someone mentioned vitamin c (sorry on app so now I've started writing I can't see bread!) - where can I buy this? Holland and Barrett or similar?

Hi, I've had a Panasonic breadmaker for a similar length of time. I use it every week and it's been brilliant. I usually make the same loaf (a granary) using flour from a nearby mill. I bought 2 bags of the same flour and used the first without a problem. However, when I started using the second bag the loaf (although it looked okay) dried out much quicker and was lacking in flavour. I used it twice after that with the same result and then bought different flour from the supermarket with a similar result. I've checked and re-checked that I'm following the recipe correctly (which I knew I was anyway). I'm totally mystified and quite upset not to have the lovely bread I previously managed to make.

Hi Everyone I too have a Panasonic bread maker, its two years old today! Since Monday my bread is exactly like everyone on this talk! I have been trolling through the internet to no avail. I have cleaned, changed yeast, bread flour, water, the lot! Now I am just trying a dough recipe and it looks as it should. It has risen but not baked. So when I take out the bread pan and look inside it seems that the seams of the metal container have come away slightly, the little grommets are not attached, so Im thinking..... the machine has overheated at some point and therefore the BAKE section is not working correctly, hence the BRICK! I would be interested if anyone else can check their machines inside. Unfortunately the two year guarantee up today so unless I just choose to make the dough and cook it in an oven it could be a new machine.

But trouble is Panasonic have the best write ups, I don't want to have to add yeast at some point of the bread making cycle.

I have used the Panasonic for the fist time , i baked soda bread using Allison flour and the correct ingredients from the recipe , i cannot set the size of bread or the crust color nothing is lighting up on the display that will let me set it

I have used a Panasonic bread maker for years. If suddenly it starts making bricks and all the ingredients are the same it may be the seal in the bottom of the pan is leaking.

Should this happen water and flour will settle there and seize or slow the paddle. This means the dough isn't mixed resulting in bricks. When this happens I take the base off and remove the shaft and clean it. Otherwise you have to spend loads of cash buying a new base.

If this is OK the capacitor may be worn out. This website explains it:-

www.diynot.com/diy/threads/does-anyone-know-how-to-take-a-panasonic-sd-2500-breadmaker-apart.469260/

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