Zojirushi Home Bakery Supreme Breadmaker/Measuring Spoon Outfit

I've been baking my own bread for over 15 years now in bread machines. I've averaged baking between 1 and 2 loaves a week during this time, so I feel I'm a pretty good judge of bread machines. The first two bread machines I used were not Zojirushi, but another leading maker of bread machines. I was fairly happy with them, but from time to time, depending on the time of the year (mainly mid summer) it was hard to get loaves to come out right, mainly due to getting the temperature of the water correct depending on the surrounding temp. Also, the size of the loaves were not the most desirable.

I've owned the Zojirushi for two months now, and I love it. It's much better than my previous bread machines in many ways, and overcomes the issues I described above with my previous machines. The loaves are much larger, so I don't have to bake bread as often, since they last longer. And the loaf dimensions are much better. I can now slice a piece of bread and it's much more...Read more

Just bought one of these from this Amazon vendor. It came very carefully packed. Only made 3 loaves of bread so far - and each has been perfect. My last one is a Pepperoni, Jalapeno and Cheese bread that makes the best toast of any that I've ever had - and I'm so old and fat that that's a lot of toast.

My last machine was a Panasonic which made pretty good "vertical" loaves - until last summer, when it started "punching down" the loaves halfway through the Bake cycle. Gave it to my sister, who can make most anything work - given time. Anyway, I have a Zojirushi rice cooker which is a thing of beauty, so I knew this would not disappoint.

The oven mitt was too small (Hey Sis!) but the stainless measuring spoons and cups are quite nice. What else can I tell ya?

Long story short, I owned the older version of this bread machine. While on the low carb diet with my husband a few years ago, he mistakenly donated it to goodwill. I replaced it with a Cuisinart bread machine. Good bread machine but no comparison to the Zo. Two months ago I bought this Zojiurshi and oh my, what a difference. The dual paddles make a huge difference in your finished product. It's just a fine quality bread machine. In comparing the the older version I owned previouisly to this new Zo I just bought. The old one was quieter and seemed to run more smoothly. A new feature with this newer model is I can lift the lid and add more flour if my dough is too wet and the paddles keep moving. The old version would stop completely when the lid was up. With the paddles moving you won't go over in adding too much flour because you can see the texture. Overall, yes it costs more. Is it worth it. Absolutely.