If you’ve been wanting to make fresh bread at home without turning it into an all-day project, this is a great machine.
This is the T-fal ActiBread PF311E51 — a stainless steel bread maker with 15 automatic programs, including 3 dedicated gluten-free settings. You add your ingredients, choose the program and loaf size, and let the machine handle the mixing, kneading, rising and baking.
What I especially like about this model is that it does a lot more than basic white bread.
It can make:
Gluten-free bread
Gluten-free sweet bread
Gluten-free cake
Whole-wheat bread
Rapid whole-wheat bread
French bread
Sweet bread
Rapid bread
Rapid sweet bread
Salt-free bread
Bread and pizza dough
Cake
Jam
Pasta dough
Cooking-only recipes
You can also choose 1 lb., 1.5 lb. or 2 lb. loaves and adjust the crust setting.
So this can replace a surprising amount of hands-on kitchen work — especially if you like homemade bread, pizza dough, cinnamon-roll dough, gluten-free baking or making things from scratch without standing over them.
The dedicated gluten-free programs are a particularly nice feature because most basic bread makers don’t give you that level of flexibility.