Test bakery VR BM-4013V

Advantages: easy to operate. Programs for desserts.

Disadvantages: only two sizes of loaves.

Test results

Great! We took the recipes from the manual: plain white bread with lots of butter , muffins, and dessert.

The bread photo 1 and the cake photo 2 rose and baked perfectly, the cake was more browned thanks to the butter and milk . For dessert we had cinnamon pudding with eggs and milk picture 3 .

It was prepared as follows: the machine kneaded the ingredients for a while, then turned on the heat and baked it very slowly. The result is a delicate pastry, which should be served as soon as it has cooled.

Functionality

Programs: the baking oven has 11 programs – classic, wholemeal, French, fast baking, muffin, cupcake, jam, dough, baking only, express, dessert.

– The basic program for making white bread or bread with a mixture of rye, corn, oat, buckwheat flour and various ingredients spices, herbs, cheese, olives takes about three hours.

– The mode of wholemeal bread is designed for cooking bread with soaked whole grains, it is also suitable for recipes with wholemeal flour. The first step of the program is not kneading but warming up. Cycle time is extended by 40 min.

– Two short programs. Express mode allows you to make a loaf of white bread in 1 hour and 38 minutes. “Quick baking” is for baked goods with the addition of baking powder or baking soda, time of 2 hours and 10 minutes.

– Baking a variety of fragrant and delicious desserts for tea. The program “muffins” – with its help it is possible to cook muffins, biscuits, muffins cooking time of 1.5 hours .

The dessert program is used for pudding and includes a kneading, rising and baking program total time: 1 hour and 40 minutes .

– Outstanding capacity for making home-made pies, rastegai and pizzas. You can effortlessly make perfect yeast dough in 1.5 hours.

– Jam and jam mode.

Loaf: 700 g, 1000 g.

Bucket internal dimensions, W×H×HV : 175×135×157 mm.

– It makes it possible to have a loaf in the form of a high brick.

– Non-stick coating is dark, the outside of the bucket is rough.

Working peculiarities. During proving the dough and the rising temperature the sight glass of the bakery fogs up. It is comparatively small and does not prevent the loaf from getting well browned on top.

– During the operation the characteristic noise of the motor can be heard.

Operation. Made with large buttons in the form of elongated rods. Button labels in American.

– The “+/-” timer buttons are in different rows, diagonally opposite each other.

– The Pause function a big plus is activated by the corresponding button. A pause allows you to add ingredients, correct the shape of the dough, make shortcrust pastry. This function is especially useful if the necessary operation is performed during the completion of one step and the transition to another, where every minute counts for example, it makes no sense to add poppy seeds or seeds after the kneading is finished .

– The display is immediately likeable: large and well-sized, with a very nice large display and a blue backlight that lights up when switching on or changing a setting. But there is a disadvantage: indication of the stages of the program is given in English.

– The timer of the device is designed for 13 hours, and the setting is made in one minute increments although the manual specifies 10 minutes . And the baking time in the baking mode with the same name can be selected in 10-minute increments., Maximum duration 1 hour.

– The panel does not overheat, and you can start the next cycle as soon as the chamber cools down so as not to spoil the yeast . Memory electronics retains settings for 10 min when turned off.

Comfort

– Easy to place in the kitchen thanks to its size.

– How to fix the bucket in the motor socket: slip the base onto the shaft and turn it. Precise and easy to use.

– The noise of the baking oven while in operation is quite noticeable, on our subjective five-point scale – a 4.

Care: Dust and flour can easily find a place to hide on the surfaces of this appliance: the joints, the perimeter of the window and the display are quite suitable for this purpose. However, just wipe with a wet or dry cloth and everything is clean. The aluminum parts are a joy to touch, so you won’t notice the slightest bit of smudge.

The inside of the baking oven does not get dirty, because it does not dust with flour.

The cable is on the back of the machine and is 94 cm long.

Instruction: it will not help a novice baker in mastering the wisdom of the process. There is no prescription of recipes. From the manual you will not know how long the cycle and each of its stages, how long the program is extended by selecting a large loaf and dark crust.

The situation with the recipes is also very modest: given one recipe for each program, and without any comments.

For example, in the recipe for cooking jam, one of the components is gelatin, but what kind: dry or soaked, and if soaked, then in what proportion?

Aesthetics

The nice shape and contrasting combination of metal and black plastic make this oven moderately attractive.

The casket-like housing is made of plastic, with polished aluminum on the front and back. The lid and the control panel are also finished in metal, and both of these surfaces have small bevels facing forward you’ll rest your palms on them when setting . The window in the door is large, and with or without a light it helps to have a good look at what’s going on inside.