It is not the first “intelligent” appliance that ends up in Cyberlayman's kitchens but it is certainly among the most curious of all: Homever MBF-001 is a real bread machine capable of kneading, fermenting and cooking different types of loaves at the push of a button.
The recipes are within everyone's reach and the realization is of a high standard, allowing you to self-produce the bread at home and take it out of the oven as soon as it is cooked in the morning thanks to the scheduled departure.
How is it made
The dimensions first of all: it measures approximately 28 x 28 x 33 centimeters, enough to require a space of its own on the countertop if used frequently or inside a piece of furniture to store it safely, but not too much if you do compares to other kitchen appliances and especially if you take into account that it can also make loaves of almost 1 kg.
It weighs more than five kilograms, which makes it sufficiently stable when you place it on a work surface and is built in an excellent way: the external shell is mainly covered in metal and the lid that contains the electronic component for program control and keeps well sealed the internal compartment appears sturdy and solid like the rest of the robot.
It is powered by connecting it to the electrical socket through the Shucko plug it is equipped with (the cable is just over a meter long) and consumes 750 W. The package includes the basket inside which the various ingredients are inserted and from which it will then extract the bread when cooked, together with the mixing paddle (with release tool attached), the glass for measuring the ingredients and the spoon with double measuring cup attached.
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How does it work
To make a loaf of bread – whether it is a classic, French, wholemeal, milk, sugar-free or canned bread, which is what we made in our first test – it is not necessary to study dozens of manual pages and it is not no particular skill is required in the use of household appliances.
What you have to do is simply follow the recipes suggested by the company for the realization of the various loaves, then inserting the correct ingredients in the basket and then programming the machine to allow it to correctly mix, ferment and cook.
There are basically three options that must be configured before pressing the start button, namely:
How is it going
It takes a few hours to transform the raw ingredients (in most cases water, flour, salt, yeast, oil, sugar) into a loaf of bread in all respects. Impossible to say how many because they vary according to the type of bread to be baked. On average there are 3, as in the case of the sandwich bread that we tried to make as a first experiment.
As we said it is only necessary to follow the recipes with the help of the manual so as not to forget the few precautions necessary to obtain a good product, such as the order of insertion of the ingredients: on the bottom there are water, oil, sugar and salt, above there goes the flour and lastly the baking powder.
The whole process can be followed through the upper door – although in most of the time it will be slightly tarnished – from which it will be possible to understand how the various phases are proceeding and, if necessary, interrupt them to modify the recipe or add other ingredients (in the in the case of cereals, for example, the company recommends adding them only when the mixture is completed during the fermentation phase).
In our test – documented by a couple of photos – we made one with medium browning and the result was really satisfying: since it was sandwich bread, the crumb as well as the crust were both very soft and well leavened. The only defect (if we can define it that way), which however applies to any type of baked bread, is due to the fact that the spatula for the dough will be inserted inside the dough and therefore will deform part of the center of the loaf when this must be removed from the basket.
That is, you will never have a completely intact bread but it will have a sort of hole in the bottom. In the event that you want to present to the guests at the table a bread that is pleasing to the eye, the advice is therefore to then cut the loaf in half, perhaps eliminating the first slice.
The manual and customer care We consider it interesting to dedicate a small paragraph to the MBF-001 Homever manual because it is among the most complete ever found in an appliance. In addition to being available in several languages including Italian (among other things translated correctly from a grammatical point of view), it clearly explains all the various parts of the machine as well as the phases that will be encountered during the preparation of bread.
In this way, those wishing to abandon recipes to experiment with new types of bread will be able to do so in full awareness of how the entire process works. Not only that: the manual also reports the effects that the various ingredients have on the creation of bread, explaining, for example, how sugar or honey affect the browning of the crust or how the addition of eggs can alter the consistency of the bread. . The manual also deals with the various types of flour indicating, for each of them, the amount of ash present in the flour after the milling of the wheat.
It is therefore a manual that deals with the subject at three hundred and sixty degrees and that is accompanied by the recipe book for the creation of the types of bread that can be programmed by the machine. In this sense we have also really appreciated the care that the company has for the customer: just one day after the delivery of Homever MBF-001 regularly purchased on Amazon you will receive an email containing a PDF file with the updated recipes and (in our case ) in Italian, of which for the convenience of our readers we report the pages in the following gallery.
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Conclusions
Making bread at home is more than a whim because not only does it allow you to make loaves that in terms of quality and final result have nothing to envy from what you can buy even in the morning in the classic oven near your home but, precisely because it allows you to control everything the process can be a valid ally for those who want to produce bread tailored to their families, especially if there are cases of food allergies or intolerances to one or more ingredients.
Homever MBF-001 is also a valid ally for those who are particularly attentive to health. Going back for a moment to the example of our test, that is to say that of making tinned bread, it is no secret (just take a look at the label on the package) that on an industrial level, ingredients are used that allow the bread to be kept as long as it is. as fresh and fragrant as possible (for example in many of these there is an addition of ethyl alcohol).
We can confirm that the sliced bread that this machine produces, through the use of only a few simple ingredients, is able to stand up to the comparison with those bought at the supermarket for taste, fragrance, softness and also for duration (half loaf we have it closed in an airtight bag to analyze this last aspect and the first signs of mold, due to the total sealing of the casing, appeared only after exactly one week, even though it is still almost as soft as the first day).
Whatever the type of bread that will be made, its result, as we said, is of a high level and we must not forget that Homever MBF-001 even allows you to program the preparation of bread: that is, it is possible to insert the ingredients in the basket before to go to sleep and make sure that, by calculating the mixing, fermentation and cooking times, you can wake up from the pleasant smell of freshly baked bread (the machine also keeps it warm for at least an hour without affecting cooking and therefore on the final result).
Retail price
Homever MBF-001 is on sale on Amazon for 115.99 euros.
