Where to buy bread makers online from just £45: make bread at home the easy and cheap way

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published 24 April 2020

Looking for a bread maker? Of course you are! We all are! The media is full of stories about home bread making, how to make bread, and explanations of why everyone has started making bread at home all of a sudden. However, frustrated bread heads have found that bread makers completely sold out early on in the pandemic. But now they are back, back, back! For a bit, before they all sell out again.

Stop reading this nonsense and make your way to Argos AT ONCE, bread makers of Britain.

• Buy bread makers at Argos from £45 to £240

Want to know what's available? Sadly, we can't tell you exactly what bread makers are on sale at Argos where YOU are right now, but we do know all of these are available somewhere in the UK.

We found we had to go through the list until we found ones available in London, Bristol, Bath and elsewhere. And you will have to do that too. Apologies for any frustration this may cause; just think of the delicious home-made bread you stand to receive at the end of all the clicking...

There are these cheap options for bakers on a budget.

• Buy Cookworks Breadmaker white £45

• Buy Morphy Richards 48281 Breadmaker white £60

• Buy Russell Hobbs 23620 Compact Breadmaker black £65

…But we know that Panasonic bread makers (or breadmakers as Argos calls them) are what the people really want. For them, you gotta pay a little more.

• Buy Panasonic SD-2500WXC Breadmaker white £100

• Buy Panasonic SD-2511KXC Breadmaker black £160

• Buy Panasonic SD-ZB2502BXC Breadmaker stainless steel £180

• Buy Panasonic SD-ZX2522KXC Breadmaker black and grey £240

Bread makers, as their name suggests, are used to make bread. With the best bread makers, you almost literally just have to chuck in the usual bread-type ingredients, press a button marked 'Make Some Bread' and then return to freshly baked bread an hour or so later.

While stainless steel looks nicer, we usually recommend plastic bread makers, as they don't get as hot during cooking. But the choice is yours (depending on what Argos has available in your area).

If you don't snap these up now, you will feel what the French call 'pain'. There's plenty of flour and in the shops. Not much yeast admittedly, but you can always make a sourdough starter.

Budget bread makers

Argos also has the following on sale, for more parsimonious bakers, or people who only want to bake bread for the duration of lockdown, before going back to Warburtons.

Cookworks Breadmaker white £45 at Argos
This is about the same price as one loaf of bread at London's trendy Borough Market, so it is quite the bargain. Its 12 programmes include white, wholewheat, 'sweet bread' and even French bread. Given that the maximum bread size is just 680g, that will be a rather compact baguette, mind you. The fastest bake time is 120 minutes, which is about as long as it will take for these to sell out entirely.
This deal will run out very soon. Availability varies by region.

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Duncan is the former lifestyle editor of T3 and has been writing about tech for almost 15 years. He has covered everything from smartphones to headphones, TV to AC and air fryers to the movies of James Bond and obscure anime. His current brief is everything to do with the home and kitchen, which is good because he is an excellent cook, if he says so himself. He also covers cycling and ebikes – like over-using italics, this is another passion of his. In his long and varied lifestyle-tech career he is one of the few people to have been a fitness editor despite being unfit and a cars editor for not one but two websites, despite being unable to drive. He also has about 400 vacuum cleaners, and is possibly the UK's leading expert on cordless vacuum cleaners, despite being decidedly messy. A cricket fan for over 30 years, he also recently become T3's cricket editor, writing about how to stream obscure T20 tournaments, and turning out some typically no-nonsense opinions on the world's top teams and players.

Before T3, Duncan was a music and film reviewer, worked for a magazine about gambling that employed a surprisingly large number of convicted criminals, and then a magazine called Bizarre that was essentially like a cross between Reddit and DeviantArt, before the invention of the internet. There was also a lengthy period where he essentially wrote all of T3 magazine every month for about 3 years.

A broadcaster, raconteur and public speaker, Duncan used to be on telly loads, but an unfortunate incident put a stop to that, so he now largely contents himself with telling people, "I used to be on the TV, you know."