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Model: Zojirushi BB-CEC20 Home Bakery Supreme 2-Pound-Loaf Breadmaker, Black
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We got the Virtuoso Plus (the top model in this line) for this price during a good Kohls sale, and we love it!! There probably is better pricing for less premium breadmakers but you can easily get your money's worth if used regularly. Protip: if you're aiming for fully whole wheat loaves we like the Vegan Whole Wheat recipe the best, in terms of texture and flavor.
We got the Virtuoso Plus (the top model in this line) for this price during a good Kohls sale, and we love it!! There probably is better pricing for less premium breadmakers but you can easily get your money's worth if used regularly. Protip: if you're aiming for fully whole wheat loaves we like the Vegan Whole Wheat recipe the best, in terms of texture and flavor.
Which is actually also on sale for $365 which is not bad...been wanting one of these.
I want this, but it's hard to justify when I can buy about 5 years worth of already made bread for the same price...but still tempted
Are you saying store bought bread full of preservatives and high fructose corn syrup? Or fresh made bread from a bakery? This will pay for itself if you buy fresh bakery bread. You definitely don't want this if you're into high fructose corn syrup....
I want this, but it's hard to justify when I can buy about 5 years worth of already made bread for the same price...but still tempted
Fresh baked bread is just amazing though. The store bought(especially from grocery stores) just don't compare. Not saying a $250+ breadmaker is necessary. I started to make bread with just a mixing spoon and a food scale. I now use a food processor to knead the dough because I'm lazy. If you're baking bread twice a week, this is probably worth it in terms of time and effort saved
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This one says it can do real sourdough bread with sourdough starter!
Sourdough is the way to go. No store bought yeast packets, taste better. Also no kneed bread.
Bread machines are more for beginner bakers. You'll find yourself eventually buying lots of loaf pans and using better baking techniques. At the end I still used it for mixing and kneeding dough. Then not even that. I moved it downstairs because it was taking up too much room.
It can work well if you're just starting, but I'd recommend trying to find a better price, or looking for a used one. There's lots of used ones for sale. You stop using them when you want to bake a lot of bread at once, or want to speed up or simplify the process, save space, etc.
I want this, but it's hard to justify when I can buy about 5 years worth of already made bread for the same price...but still tempted
You could probably buy a lifetimes supply of homemade bread for this price - assuming 25lb bags of flour are $11.00.
All you need to bake bread is flour and an oven. And maybe some loaf pans for a couple of bucks if you want. If you have a dutch oven, you might even skip having a conventional oven. Look into sough dough and no kneed bread techniques.
If you go that route, and skip the inflated prices of bread machines - which always seem to make my family one loaf of bread after 3 hrs, which they immediately eat in 5 minutes (netting me nothing), you can go on to focus on better things, like getting wheat berries and buying a flour mill, or looking for a better bread knife, or a cast iron loaf pan, a commercial pullman loaf pan, etc.
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Are you saying store bought bread full of preservatives and high fructose corn syrup? Or fresh made bread from a bakery? This will pay for itself if you buy fresh bakery bread. You definitely don't want this if you're into high fructose corn syrup....
I'm not sure how buying a $277 bread machine is going to be cheaper than a few minutes learning how to do it yourself - at which point, it's basically free.
Almost all overly expensive kitchen gadgets are selling a dream based on not knowing how to do it yourself, or how simple it really is. Making the victims always reliant on something else that doesn't work as well, and never learning.
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I'm not sure how buying a $277 bread machine is going to be cheaper than a few minutes learning how to do it yourself - at which point, it's basically free.
Almost all overly expensive kitchen gadgets are selling a dream based on not knowing how to do it yourself, or how simple it really is. Making the victims always reliant on something else that doesn't work as well, and never learning.
its a robot, it does multiple steps without any input, load ingredients when convenient set timer and then you have fresh warm bread.
I'm not sure how buying a $277 bread machine is going to be cheaper than a few minutes learning how to do it yourself - at which point, it's basically free.Almost all overly expensive kitchen gadgets are selling a dream based on not knowing how to do it yourself, or how simple it really is. Making the victims always reliant on something else that doesn't work as well, and never learning.
I've been making homemade bread for close to 10years, and during this time we only buy bread maybe a couple times a year. More or less you still need either a stand mixer or a bread machine to make the dough, unless you plan to devote your own hands each time. My routine is I have 3 bread machines, 1 zojirushi (not this exact model) and 2 Oster cheapo one, that make the dough for me. I then take the dough out and shape it by hand and do a 2nd rise before baking. I can't say the expensive one is necessarily better at making dough, but if I for some reason I couldn't do the shaping and bake separately, then the expensive bread maker really does shine on the result. Some days when I work from home I start a complete cycle during lunch break, then mid afternoon it's done and I take it out to cool, and it's ready at dinner time.
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Bread machines are more for beginner bakers. You'll find yourself eventually buying lots of loaf pans and using better baking techniques. At the end I still used it for mixing and kneeding dough. Then not even that. I moved it downstairs because it was taking up too much room.
It can work well if you're just starting, but I'd recommend trying to find a better price, or looking for a used one. There's lots of used ones for sale. You stop using them when you want to bake a lot of bread at once, or want to speed up or simplify the process, save space, etc.
All you need to bake bread is flour and an oven. And maybe some loaf pans for a couple of bucks if you want. If you have a dutch oven, you might even skip having a conventional oven. Look into sough dough and no kneed bread techniques.
If you go that route, and skip the inflated prices of bread machines - which always seem to make my family one loaf of bread after 3 hrs, which they immediately eat in 5 minutes (netting me nothing), you can go on to focus on better things, like getting wheat berries and buying a flour mill, or looking for a better bread knife, or a cast iron loaf pan, a commercial pullman loaf pan, etc.
Almost all overly expensive kitchen gadgets are selling a dream based on not knowing how to do it yourself, or how simple it really is. Making the victims always reliant on something else that doesn't work as well, and never learning.
Almost all overly expensive kitchen gadgets are selling a dream based on not knowing how to do it yourself, or how simple it really is. Making the victims always reliant on something else that doesn't work as well, and never learning.
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