Cuisinart Bread Maker Machine, Stainless Steel Convection Bread Machine with 16 Menu Options, 3 Loaf Sizes Up to 2 Lb., 3 Crust Colors, Includes Measuring Cup, Spoon & Kneading Hook, CBK-210

I’ve been making multiple loaves a week since the holidays. Here to say this bread machine has been performing beautifully! I’ve made several recipes in the book including cinnamon sugar bread and pizza dough. Everything has turned out great. I do take the dough out and bake in a regular oven. But the bread machine does all the mixing, kneading, and rising work for me. It’s so much fun. And it has been super easy and quick to clean.

Well, it sort of worked, but seemed to be screwing up bread - like it would raise and then when cooking it would fall and just look awful. I don't really know what was happening - seems a heating coil regulator or something like that had gone wonky. I LOVE MY HOMEMADE BREAD AND HAD TO HAVE ANOTHER MACHINE!!! Yeah, yeah, I could go back to doing it manually, but I had gotten used to putting the ingredients in the pan of the bread maker and letting it make the bread. So...I had to find a good replacement and I did quite a search and looked through several bread makers before settling on this Cuisinart one. First, I had one of the original Cuisinart food processors that lasted me about 25-30 years before the plastic started showing too much wear and tear (some pieces cracked off) and even then I found one at a Goodwill store that was exactly like mine so I got more years out of it! I also have a Cuisinart Ice Cream Maker and during the summer, I have made some darn good ice cream in it! Now, back to this particular bread maker - it is Cuisinart, but I loved the little add-in ingredient drawer so that part is now "automated" should I want cinnamon swirl breakfast bread or spice and pumpkin seed bread as examples. My old bread maker's "menu window" that showed what I had programmed in was horrible! It had a sort of silver background with black lettering and the size of the loaf was nothing more than a DOT showing at the bottom of the screen! This bread maker has a bright, easy-to-read screen is so much better and I love that it has the "confirm" button as my old one was just basically start/stop. I love the ten beeps to let me take the dough out, remove the paddle, add the dough back and have bread with no paddle sticking out of the bottom. Last, is the way this one is more...horizontal instead of vertical if that makes sense. This Cuisinart bread maker has the bread "bucket" on the left-hand side where the old one had the menu in the front, the bread bucket in the back. I really didn't like that set up as I am shorter and trying to pull that bread bucket out was often more difficult when it was hot and I wanted to pull the bread to cool it off. So...this Cuisinart has several features as noted above that means I am going to be thrilled to make bread every week! OH, and if you have issues with bread makers and the lower bread sizes (not tall like the store-bought, air-puffed breads), follow your favorite bread maker yeast bread recipe BUT ADD IN a tablespoon of vital wheat gluten (used in vegetarian seitan and other vegan recipes to create meatless meat) for each one cup of flour called for in your bread recipe. I have scaled my addition of vital wheat gluten (and please keep it in your refrigerator) to 2/3rds or 2 Tablespoons of vital wheat gluten to 3 cups flour. You will find your bread rises really well and looks absolutely beautiful compared to store-bought puffed up bread! But in the end, this is my best-buy Cuisinart machine to date - it may be YOURS as well!

This is the best bread machine of all! I've tried a few and none compare. The bread pan easily twists into place. The settings and menu options work perfectly. It comes with a nice instruction book that has delicious recipes for every menu option.

This is my 3rd breadmaker and I have made 5 loaves of various types of bread in 3 weeks. So far I am pleased with the appliance. The control panel is very sensitive and I have found with the control panel located on the top right side when scraping the sides during various mixing and kneading if you lightly touch with your arm, the process stops and you must confirm and restart. It was more of an issue on my first loaf as I was not sure why it was happening, now it is a minor inconvenience. The tray for add ins, while it works properly, is very loud during that part of the process. Additionally it does not retract itself after it drops, if you do not want your bread deformed, you must push it back up when removing the paddle.

This is such an incredible machine. I have made pizza dough. I have made two loaves of bread. It does an incredible job every single time one of my better purchases that I have ever made. I’m very pleased with this bread maker if you’re looking for something to make things a little bit easier while making sure you know what’s going in your food. This is the way to do it.

The CBK-210 convection bread machine is my first bread machine. I have owned this model for a couple of months now, using it at least twice weekly. I was initially hesitant to buy it since it's a newer model, but my worries were put to rest after I baked my first loaf, which was super yummy. The machine is very easy to operate. I have enjoyed many of the recipes from the included booklet, but I also purchased a different bread machine recipe book (popular on Amazon) that has been great too. So far, I have yet to make a bad loaf, even when I didn't measure the ingredients exactly. I also experienced a power outage during my second bake and was surprised to find that the machine has a "memory recall" feature, allowing it to resume where it left off even after abruptly losing power. I can't imagine power interruptions happen often enough to bakers to necessitate such a feature, but it's cool nonetheless! Onto the possible cons. The machine is quite noisy when kneading, but I think that's normal for most bread machines. This is a convection bread machine, meaning it has fans to circulate the heat, but I'm honestly not sure how much that matters compared to regular bread machines, given the oven's small size. At least the fans are inaudible. I feel I may be paying a premium for something that may not really matter, but oh well. Compared to their cheaper model, this bread machine looks much more modern and is prettier on the counter. The pan handle is also somewhat annoying to grasp; the manufacturers even acknowledge this by providing a little tool to help catch the handle. I think they could have come up with a better design and eliminated the need for the tool. Lastly, the pan's bottom is a narrow shape and can easily tip over accidentally when filling with ingredients. I have to place the pan first in a small container to make it more balanced and less prone to tipping. It's a very minor annoyance, but another design aspect that I think could have been better thought out. Overall, it's been fantastic, and I'm healthier and saving money by not having to buy store-bought bread anymore.

The Cuisinart Custom Bread Maker CBK-210 is a disappointment and down grade from the previous model, CBK-200. The good: its smaller, lighter, and the bread pan locks in with a twist, which seems more secure than the last model. It also has a mix in dispenser. The bad: this machine (CBK-210) seems cheaply made. Pushing the buttons to select the program is difficult and often the machine is unresponsive. The bread pan is smaller and more squared. Not all programs use the Automatic Mix-in Dispenser (including the Dough program) and there is no way I can find to customize the program to add it. Even the Instruction and Recipe Book is a down grade with less recipes, only two of which provide the option of different loft sizes. I hate this machine. I was expecting a replacement for my Cuisinart CBK-200, but got a cheaply made downgrade. (Had to replace my CBK-200 when the pan kept popping out and then the paddle stopped turning after I tried putting the pan back in. I wish I'd tried to fix it instead of replacing).

This machine has opened my eyes to a whole new world. Who knew making fresh bread was so easy! I actually purchased this particular make and model because it had a sourdough bread function, which is the preferred bread in my household. The first two sourdough loaves I tried on here were a complete fail. I haven’t used the sourdough starter mode either. I just bought a starter on Amazon since I wasn’t ready to start that science experiment. Nevertheless… the quick white bread, quick wheat bread, challah bread, sandwich bread, and apple bread I’ve made on here have been phenomenal! I just plop the ingredients in as described in the included manual and the wallah! You have fresh delicious bread! I like to add whey protein to my mixes and it doesn’t even change the result. I love knowing what goes into my food and this little machine makes it so easy! I bought a bread machine cook book to try out even more variations. I plan on trying out the rest of the recipes provided by Cuisinart eventually. Buying this unit also led me through a sourdough bread rabbit hole! It really is pretty simple if you have the tools, which in my case caused me to buy a Dutch oven, and whole slew of sourdough tools. Who new it was such an process! Even though I don’t use this machine to make sourdough, I love it anyway! I do plan on going through the sourdough making process and experimenting to see if I can bake it in the Cusinart Breadmaker, but since I’m new to this phenomenon, I don’t want to waste dough in case it fails. When I tried making the sourdough the first two times, I used the machine and its instructions from start to finish… I never tried manipulating the dough myself, and then letting it rest, etc. which is about a 24 hour process before the dough is ready. The machine instructions made it seem like a sourdough loaf could be cooked after a 3 hour process. I’m still experimenting, and don’t know how I feel about wasting a dough I’ve curated for 24 hours and plopping it in the bread maker instead of my new Dutch oven lol. All in all, I don’t regret this purchase. You don’t even have to clean the machine much! It’s basically mess free, warm delicious affordable bread. I am so happy I’ve been introduced to the world of bread making with this unit.