Best Bread Maker Machine Review

Great Deal Zojirushi BBCC-V20 Home Bakery Traditional Breadmaker

The Zojirushi-V20 is the third bread machine that I’ve owned and it is by far the BEST! Unlike my first bread machine, it makes nice traditional shaped rectangular loaves (not round ones that look like you baked them in a coffee can!). And unlike my second breadmachine, the Zojirushi is built to last, making loaf after loaf, day in and day out, with no smoking or strange noises coming from the motor. The V20 is easy to use, has multiple pre-programmed settings plus gives you the option to program in your own recipe times. The preheat function is also a nice touch, my first machine didn’t have a preheat cycle and everything had to sit out on the counter until it came to room temperature before you could start. My favorite function is the timer function though! Want fresh bread for breakfast or dinner, you can program the Zojirushi to bake your bread and have it ready to eat when you are. You can even bake cakes and make jam in it if you want. In fact the very first jar of jam I ever made was in my Zojirushi! Want a simple but delicious dessert for dinner, pour in any cake mix and have the Zojirushi bake a pound cake like loaf that you can top with fresh sliced fruit!

If you are looking to buy your first bread machine, I urge you to spend the extra money and buy the best machine on the market, it will more than pay for itself over the years. And if the pleasure of eating fresh homemade bread (really-there is nothing like it available at the supermarket) isn’t enough of a reward think of the health benefits of providing whole grain goodness for you and your family.

If my bread machine ever breaks (unlikely unless I drop it) I will not hesitate to buy another Zojirushi because once you’ve used the best, there is no going back. I have read other reviews where people have had trouble with rusting or warped pans and chipped or rusting paddles but I haven’t had any trouble with mine at all and I use it at least once a week. I always hand wash my pan and paddles and dry them right away and I never “soak” them but I’ve never found a need to “soak” them anyway and I’ve made everything from bread to dough to cakes to jam in mine.

works fine after 4 years of use – S. Pustylnik – Rockville, Maryland
It still works after 4 years of use. We bake 2 loafs of bread a week. Half time we bake hard whole wheat bread. We also use it to make pizza dough very often.
This machine for us worked much better than Breadmaker, that died after 1.5 year of same type of use.

Be ready to buy replacement parts every 12-18 mths – Miriam – Tennessee
I have owned this bread machine since May 2004. It has been used approximately once each week. Sometime in the late summer/fall of 2005, the pan needed to be replaced because the interior non-stick coating was peeling off and falling into the dough. The cost for a replacement pan is + s/h. A customer service rep @ Zojirushi was kind enough to send me a replacement for free. By April 2008, the non-stick coating on the kneading blades were peeling badly (and had been for several months) and had to be replaced for a cost of + S/H. About 6 mos ago, the unit started to bake unevenly. The pan is now again in need of replacement, and the paddles that I purchased 13 months ago are peeling badly. I called customer service to ask how long the paddles should last before peeling. Of course, I got a very non-comittal answer of “it depends”. I was told that every 1-2 years was quite normal. The machine worked great when it was newer, but the parts are pretty expensive to keep replacing each year.

Rating : 4.0

Price on Jul 28, 2010 05:50:33 : $249.00



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