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Today we are reviewing the first Cuisinart Bread Maker in the  Best Bread Maker Reviews  series. Cuisineart became a player in the kitchen cooking appliances when it developed the ‘food processor’ about 30 year ago. Now they are offering a wide range of products from Microwaves to Coffeemaker to Bread Makers. The  Cuisinart CBK-100 Programmable Breadmaker  has pretty much all the features and functions that a beginner bread maker would be looking for. It even includes the necessary measurement equipment and easy to use recipes. For those who can only eat ‘gluten-free’ bread, this machine come with the needed ‘gluten-free’ bread maker cycle and recipes do bake you own gluten free bread. Important things to note: The ‘beep’ is experiences as  very loud . Various users have complained about a breaking kneading paddle. Although the description of this bread maker suggests it, you can’t program your own ‘homemade cycle’ Let’s review the featur...

Today we are reviewing the second Cuisinart bread maker in our  best bread maker review  series. The  Cuisinart CBK-200 2-Pound Convection Automatic Bread Maker  is very similar to the  Cuisinart CBK-100 Programmable Bread maker .  It has very similar functions and features which includes gluten-free bread, crust control, multiple bread sizes, etc. The main difference between the two machines is that the CBK-200 has more pre-programmed cycles (16 instead of 11) and the CBK-200 comes with a ‘convection fan’ to distribute the heat evenly. Important things to note; This bread maker does have a fan in it to evenly control and distribute the heat in the machine Bread pan is make of thin aluminum, some users complain about a pealing nonstick layer Some users have experienced ‘burnt crust’ even with the medium crust function One user explained that this bread maker does bake very hot, therefore recipes with lots of sugar don’t succeed too w...