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  | Zojirushi BBCC-V20 Home Bakery Traditional Breadmaker
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 Perfect kitchen companion - already 1 year in use | |
| This is one of the best buys I've made here, at amazon.com. Great bread baking machine! I haven't used the included book of recepies though as I bought Beth Hensperger's "Bread Machine Cookbook" at the same time. And every single recepie worked perfectly! Now I never buy bread at the store.
On the downsides: sometimes it is tricky to get the bread out of the pan if you make just 1.5 lb loaf - then the weight of bread might not be enough to easily break the crust around the kneading blades. Then some rigorous shaking is required! :) After a year of CONSTANT use, the non-stick surface is sratched off in some places, but not much, and again - I am using it very-very extensively. All in all, stronlgy recommend! | |
| Well worth it | |
| I have owned one other bread machine before this one -- another Zojirushi. It lasted for 10 years, and I used it regularly, so if that machine is any indication Zojirushi produces high-quality bread machines. Despite that, if I were to use the Amazon star system, I would have given it a four. The old machine produced upright loaves, and when using the "bake" option I never was able to make perfect loaves. Usually the loaves would be light and airy on the top, and a bit too dense on the bottom. Therefore, I turned to making almost exclusively homemade loaves using the dough option. When my bread machine died a couple of months ago my wife and tried to live without it, but we realized that not only did we miss having a constant supply of fresh bread that is always better than even our best local bakeries, a bread machine is very cost effective. A good loaf of bread in Hawaii, say a French country loaf, is $3-4. I can make that in my bread machine for about 50 cents. Granted, I have the original expense for the bread machine, but considering that I make so many hand-shaped loaves that I'll easily make up the original investment. Anyway, all of this made us decide to buy a new machine, and naturally Zojirushi was our first choice. I looked around on the net at various reviews and concluded that this machine was the best value -- it appears that they're phasing it out, so it's price has dropped recently. I got an exceptionally good deal from Amazon (which included free Fedex to Hawaii, amazingly enough, and a $20 gift certificate), and so we were back in the world of bread machines. I have now had it for about one month so I think I can speak with some authority on it. First of all, it makes normal horizontal loaves, and as a result the consistancy of bread baked in the machine is just fine. I will be using the machine to make basic white bread from this point forward. As for the dough feature, I have had no problems, and so have been able to continue making my handshaped loaves as before. In sum, this bread machine is a good value, and does what it promises. If it proves to be as durable as my previous Zojirushi, all the better. I highly recommend it. | |
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| THIS BREAD MAKER IS THE WORST AND ONLY ONE I HAVE OWNED THAT WILL NOT MIX BREAD EVENLY. THE DOUBLE PADDLES PUT DISAPPORTIONED AMOUNTS OF FLOOR AND YEAST INTO BOTHSIDES OF THE PAND RESULTING IN A TORPEADO SHAPED LOAF OF BREAD. HIGH SIDE TO LOW SIDE, NOT EVEN ON TOP DONT BUY | |
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