I’m not sure what there is to say about our bread machine, other than that it’s

AMAZING

I would like to think I somehow roped both Fleur and Lavender into buying the newer version, Panasonic 106, because I kept posting the bagels and bread I was making, none of it due to my baking skill.  It’s all the machine.

But since I want to start posting the PDF recipes the children use to make their bread, I guess I should give a little background?

Where to Buy It

We bought ours in Taiwan and lugged it back as carry on.  Fleur got someone to lug it back for her and I think Lavender had it shipped straight from Japan.  Yes, you can buy the machine from Japan or buy it from Taiwan Panasonic, with Japan having more of the latest.   Amazon has it for twice the cost.  I believe the versions in order of release dates are: 105t, 106, 1000t, 2000, MDX100.

But I wanted a bread machine with Chinese menus and recipe book for our CLE.

Why I Didn’t Buy One from the States

Honestly, I didn’t do a lot of research as I had trying to adjust to a new life of spending time with my kids 24/7.  All I knew was that my mom had a bread machine and she complained that if she wanted to add nuts or make other weird flavors, she had to wake up in the middle of the night to add them.

We had a stand mixer.  It probably makes even better bread.  But it was super big and heavy.  I couldn’t lift it with my bad back and didn’t have room for it on my counter.

Then I hear all the Taiwanese moms raving about this machine online so I thought I’d check it out.  Best purchase ever.

What I love about the machine is:

• I can add nuts, chocolates, cranberries and any other thing on the top container and it auto drops them in.
• You can set it to start up to 12 hours in the future
• I can make bagels, pizza, udon, pasta, jam, chocolate, yeast, matcha flavor, chocolate flavored bread, and red bean paste.  I’ve even used it to make taro and sweet potato glutinous rice balls.
• There are 30 preset menus with 3 of them allowing you to separately mix, rise, and bake the bread.  This means you can essentially use the bread machine as a stand mixer and leave it to rise.
• There are TONS of recipes online.  The recipes are more Asian so I can find a lot of inspirations in making the soft Japanese/Taiwanese food I like.

Out of the 30 recipes, I’ve probably tried just 8-10 of them in the 5 years I’ve owned the machine, with other variations I found online.  I don’t do well with having too many options.  But we love the pizza and the bagels we make.

Once I figured out a recipe, I typed them up into a bilingual recipe, and put it in the kids recipe book.  We walk through it the first time because it’s short on details.  The kids have loved making bagels and pizzas.  I’m hoping I can start them again with the red bean and sesame recipe I recently figured out.

Alright, this is a short post.  Maybe some pics?