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Zojirushi BB-PDC20BA Home Bakery Virtuoso Plus Breadmaker, 2 lb. loaf of bread, Stainless Steel/Black: Home & Kitchen $274.16
$274.16
$440.00
Zojirushi Virtuoso Plus Bread Maker retail $440
Great bread make sold and shipped by Amazon. Lowest price since Christmas 2021. Happy baking!
https://www.amazon.com/Zojirushi-...w=g&hvrand
Great bread make sold and shipped by Amazon. Lowest price since Christmas 2021. Happy baking!
https://www.amazon.com/Zojirushi-...w=g&hvrand
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Without retractable blades, not seeing any reason why it would do a better job than a $50 to $100 model.
Without retractable blades, not seeing any reason why it would do a better job than a $50 to $100 model.
I think the main differentiators for this machine are the top heating element and that it produces normal shaped loaves of bread. I have this model and I've been very happy with it. I paid about $330 in 2019. At first we just used it for fun, but during the early part of the pandemic it was hard to find bread sometimes and it really saved the day. I think we have probably baked around 90 loaves of bread and it is still going strong. I did my research before buying, and at least in 2019 this was the top-rated machine.
Several years ago I bought a Panasonic bread maker that was highly rated on Amazon. In reading the reviews the primary downside was that it was an abnormal load shape; tall and skinny, as I've come to find is the "norm" of most home bread makers.
Over several years we were satisfied with the Panasonic. My wife would often cut the top off the loaf and we'd eat that with soups and pasta, etc and slice the bottom for sandwiches. We never really considered it a replacement for buying most loaves of sandwich bread, and being that we had easy access to a local bread maker, we continued to buy bread loaves.
When this bread maker was on sale in late November/early December I bought it for my wife for Christmas.
We were blown away by the quality of loaves. We previously never thought the Panasonic did a bad job, but it was definitely in a different league. The main difference I've found in quality of loaves is that the zoji loaf is much more uniform, whereas the Panasonic would be noticably denser at the bottom and lighter/airier at the top. The Panasonic also had a thick crust, nice and crisp on the outside but about 1/8 in would be kind of dry until you'd get to the nice inside. This zoji doesn't seem to do that, and instead has a thin crust with consistent nice inside.
At this point we've stopped buying bread and use this bread maker about 2-3 times a week for our family of 5. My wife usually makes bread using her sourdough starter and it turns out well, but we've also tried several of the recipes that come with the machine and they're great, from the white bread with honey, to some of the grain breads, and my kids love the cinnamon roll bread with scrambled eggs in the morning!
Anyway, take any review from a stranger with a grain of salt, but I'm one who doesn't mind paying for quality. While I can't speak to longevity at this point yet, I'm very satisfied with this bread maker and would definitely pay $300+ for it knowing now how great it is.
Several years ago I bought a Panasonic bread maker that was highly rated on Amazon. In reading the reviews the primary downside was that it was an abnormal load shape; tall and skinny, as I've come to find is the "norm" of most home bread makers.
Over several years we were satisfied with the Panasonic. My wife would often cut the top off the loaf and we'd eat that with soups and pasta, etc and slice the bottom for sandwiches. We never really considered it a replacement for buying most loaves of sandwich bread, and being that we had easy access to a local bread maker, we continued to buy bread loaves.
When this bread maker was on sale in late November/early December I bought it for my wife for Christmas.
We were blown away by the quality of loaves. We previously never thought the Panasonic did a bad job, but it was definitely in a different league. The main difference I've found in quality of loaves is that the zoji loaf is much more uniform, whereas the Panasonic would be noticably denser at the bottom and lighter/airier at the top. The Panasonic also had a thick crust, nice and crisp on the outside but about 1/8 in would be kind of dry until you'd get to the nice inside. This zoji doesn't seem to do that, and instead has a thin crust with consistent nice inside.
At this point we've stopped buying bread and use this bread maker about 2-3 times a week for our family of 5. My wife usually makes bread using her sourdough starter and it turns out well, but we've also tried several of the recipes that come with the machine and they're great, from the white bread with honey, to some of the grain breads, and my kids love the cinnamon roll bread with scrambled eggs in the morning!
Anyway, take any review from a stranger with a grain of salt, but I'm one who doesn't mind paying for quality. While I can't speak to longevity at this point yet, I'm very satisfied with this bread maker and would definitely pay $300+ for it knowing now how great it is.
Ditto to all of the above, bought a used one and initially thought it was broken since it didn't start mixing like the other $99.00 variety machines, but then googled about how it has a delay in starting. This was 4 years ago but have finally figured out an easy peasy soft half whole wheat recipe when the pandemic started. Haven't bought sandwich bread since. Also used it to mix yeast rolls and potato buns for baking in gas oven. Also found out to keep both of the paddles in the same direction before pouring in ingredients to ensure a level loaf; mine where coming out lopsided for a while.