Did we get a duff one?
4/5
My daughter has this and thinks it’s perfect. It’s a sensible design, size and shape and looks clean and smart.
We bought one. It had a dent all down one corner ( packaging not damaged, so evidently packed like this. The replacement repeatedly didn’t fold down the paddle
( special feature, supposed to avoid leaving a torn hole in the base of the loaf). Since we usually take the dough out and make rolls etc. with it, we decided to put up with that. Recently, the loaf tin was very difficult to remove from the bread maker, and on the next occasion we couldn’t remove it at all. AO complained to Sage for us, and replaced it, since they didn’t respond to us, even after we’d sent them a video of us trying to remove the tin from the bread maker.