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GregL65's picture

Wheat bread not as good after upgrading from Panasonic SD-YD250 to Zojirushi BB-PAC20

June 13, 2018 - 12:19am -- GregL65

I used a Panasonic SD-YD250 for several years, making over 1,000 honey wheat loaves. They were delicious. On the first day after baking, it was almost as delicious as a pastry. I have never tasted better wheat bread.

Recently I upgraded to a two-paddle model, the Zojirushi BB-PAC20. I like the shape of the loaves, but the honey wheat bread does not taste quite as good. It doesn't taste bad, but it never tastes as good as it did with the Panasonic SD-YD250. I started with the wheat setting but found it's a little better with the white bread setting, and crust set to dark.

sdean7855's picture

Please take a look at my question in the Baking for Special Needs Forum

April 7, 2018 - 10:31am -- sdean7855

It involves both a spelt bread AND a Zojirushi Virtuoso bread machine....and maybe someone who's here would be able to answer it. I need help with the home made course (what to set the times for each part of its breadmaking cycle) with 100% spelt bread. It's at:

http://www.thefreshloaf.com/node/55860/help-custom-times-allspelt-bread-made-zojirushi-virtuoso

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Dough Going Slack in the Middle of Kneading.

March 18, 2018 - 7:48am -- iPat

Hello,

 

    Recently, I've been experiencing an odd problem with my bread making.

 

    Using the straight dough method, the ingredients would be thoroughly combined in the first 3 minutes using speed 1.

    I would then switch to speed 2 and start kneading the dough.

    During minute 4 to minute 9, everything would look normal (a ball of undeveloped dough banging around the mixing bowl).

    But then, at around the 10-minute mark, the dough ball would go slack and stick to the bottom of the bowl. (see picture)

KevinJones's picture

Programmable machine that only heats while cooking

December 31, 2017 - 3:38pm -- KevinJones

I am making bread that needs to be kneaded cold and left to rise in the cold. It only needs to be heated when it is baked.

But it appears that while most bread machines can be programmed, they still heat the dough when it is kneading and letting it sit and rise.  It seems there is no way to program the heat cycle.

Is there such a machine which could be programmed to only heat while the bread is being baked?

threedogwrite's picture

Paging Zojirushi Virtuoso owners about "shape" cycle

December 16, 2017 - 4:18am -- threedogwrite

I can't understand why the shape cycle doesn't come right after the first rise instead of after the knead.  If you have shaped the dough you wouldn't want the blades to mishape it with the stir downs between the rises.

What I would like to do is have it knead, do one rise, then shape it and do the final rise three, with rise 2 turned off and then bake.

Frank99's picture

slow rise in bread machine / musings

October 26, 2017 - 10:26am -- Frank99

New sana bread machine procured, has a stainless pan.

I've been working on gluten-free recipes and they're coming along well, need to tweak them for the machine though. Using buckwheat, sorghum, white rice flour, brown rice flour, arrowroot, potato starch, xanthan, instant yeast, salt, above in different combinations. The machine is already proving useful as I'm sometimes too lazy to go through all the steps conventionally and now just dumping things will make food. On the first run it seems like I need a bit less water than in a conventional oven.

TheUninvited's picture

Question about Bread Machine.

October 2, 2017 - 12:27pm -- TheUninvited

So you know that you put all the ingredients together and then hit the start button? Right?

 

My question is wouldn't it have a problem with yeast since leaving it like that is no good? Most videos shows that first you combine the ingredients and then you wait the period of time. In the bread machine you just put the ingredients you set the timer and then it starts like after 30 min or whetever time to start combiling the ingredients.

BakeonlytheBest's picture

Starter Bread Machine

August 24, 2017 - 4:20am -- BakeonlytheBest

Hey everyone, as I mentioned in my introduction I am very new to the world of bread making (on my own). It is something that I was sparsely taught by my grandmother but since she has passed I now have all of her recipes but none of the knowledge. I am trying to get there, and my first step is to make some bread with a bread machine so I can learn a bit more about how the ingredients react to each other while having some-sort of a helping hand. 

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Ariete 1596 Impastatrice Compatta Gourmet Professional

August 12, 2017 - 9:34pm -- restless baker

hey guys , i wanna buy a mixer for making my bread dough , i was woundering what do you guys think of Ariete 1596 Impastatrice Compatta Gourmet Professional ??? is it good ? i want a machine thats strong and last for at least a year or 2 .

 http://www.ariete.net/catalog/impastatrici/Gourmet-Professional-Metal-1596#

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