Saturday, November 12, 2011

Review of the Cheapest Breville Panini Press


!±8± Review of the Cheapest Breville Panini Press

Breville BSG520XL Panini Duo introduction

The cheapest Breville panini press available for household use is the Breville BSG520XL Panini Duo. This machine is a 1500 watt sandwich maker that heats up quickly. The bottom hot plate is flat which means that the panini it makes are cooked completely. The top plate is ribbed. This gives the top part of the sandwich authentic looking grill marks. Both plates are covered with a new non-stick material that is also durable. This is known as Quantanium and is a material that was developed by the aerospace industry which goes to show how hi-tech it is! Another useful feature of this Breville panini press is the way it closes. Rather than have a fixed hinge, you can actually adjust the height at which it closes. This means that it is easy to make sandwiches of different sizes. On top of this, all Breville kitchenware is highly stylized and this machine is no different.

Breville BSG520XL Panini Duo comparison

The Breville BSG520XL Panini Duo retails for under 0. This machine is in the same grade as the Cuisinart GR-3 Griddler Jr. Both machines are of similar size and cost the same sort of money. So is the Breville machine better or are they just as good as each other? There is one major difference between these two appliances. This is that the Breville machine has fixed hot plates that cannot be removed from the machine while the Cusinart device allows the user to remove the hot plates. The benefit of removable plates is that it makes thorough cleaning of the device much easier. You can clean the plates in warm soapy water. However with Breville panini presses the only real option is to wipe them down with a damp cloth. Therefore it could be argued that Breville machines are less user-friendly because the cleaning stage is a bit harder. This is an important consideration because the harder it is to use, and clean up afterwards, the less likely we are to actually use our sandwich maker. It does not matter how cheap something is, if we do not make use of it we have simply wasted our money. So are the non-removable hot plates a deal breaker? For me personally this is not a huge issue. However there are some users that find this to be a major draw back.

Cheapest Breville panini press positives

On a more positive note, most owners of this machine who have written reviews online report that they are very happy with the quality of panini that it produces. Many people report that for the price, this is the best toasted sandwich maker on the market today. Its design and construction is very solid. It also looks great too which is important for the style conscious amongst us. As mentioned above in the introduction, this machine has one flat plate (on the bottom) and one ribbed plate (on the top). The flat plate is great as it ensures that your sandwich is thoroughly heated while the top plate gives your home made panini that authentic sandwich shop vibe.

How to use the cheapest Breville panini press

It is very easy to use this piece of kitchenware. It is a standard electrical device so firstly you simply have to set it up on a flat area of your work surface. Then you take the electrical cord and un-ravel it before plugging it into an electrical wall socket. This allows the machine to draw the energy it needs to toast your sandwich. It does not take a great deal of time for the machine to warm up to a useable temperature. You know when it is ready for use because there is an indicator light that signals when the appropriate temperature has been reached. On this machine there is no option to change the temperature level so there is nothing to get confused with. A good idea is to be preparing your sandwich and filling at the same time as the panini press is heating up. First you just need to select the type of bread that you want to use. One of my favorites is to use ciabatta as this is the type I used to buy when I bought panini from the delicatessen. It feels like this kind of bread was designed with panini sandwich makers in mind! Simply cutting the bread length ways so that you open it up completely allows you to put in the filling that you have decided upon. When you are adding your filling you should be careful not to put too much in nor place ingredients too close to the side. Either of these "mistakes" will likely lead to your panini leaking when it is toasting inside your machine. Instead of trying to stuff too many things into your sandwich why not just pick two things that you think go well together and use that? For me, I really enjoy eating blue cheese. So I like to juxtapose that with something sweet. For example blue cheese with apricot chutney. This makes it easy not to over fill my sandwich. It does not take long for this panini to become ready either. After a few minutes the cheese will have started to melt and the grill marks will begin to appear on the top of the toasted sandwich. At this stage I know that it is ready so just take it out of the machine and serve it up straight away.

Closing comments about the cheapest Breville panini press

Apart from the fact that this machine is not easy to clean, there is nothing bad that I have to say about it. Admittedly I would like to be able to actually wash the hot plates occasionally just so I know that it is completely clean. But other than that I love it. It is great to see the sandwich press sitting on my work top. The design and materials that it is made from make it look like a very high quality piece of merchandise. If you are considering a new toasted sandwich maker, a Breville panini press may be exactly what you are looking for.


Review of the Cheapest Breville Panini Press

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