Customer reviews from zojirushi.com
Zojirushi - BB-PDC20BA Home Bakery Virtuoso Plus Breadmaker - Silver
Average customer rating
4.8
(217 Reviews)
Rating breakdown 217 reviews
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97%of customers recommend this product.
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Customer Reviews for Zojirushi - BB-PDC20BA Home Bakery Virtuoso Plus Breadmaker - Silver
Posted by: DougT
Verified Purchase:Yes
Baked my first loaf of bread yesterday. I used wheat flour and followed the recipe in the book. It came out beautiful and tasted very good.
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Posted by: Raj.
from Kansas
Gender:Male
Verified Purchase:Yes
Wow! Brilliant Japanese engineering!! Very good quality breads. Most easiest option to make home made delicious and healthy bread!!
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Posted by: Kristen
from Sunnyvale, CA
Gender:Female
Verified Purchase:Yes
This is my second Zojirushi breadmaker, the first version lasted me 20 years. Many improvements have been made over the years. This breadmaker is truly a marvel, making loaf after loaf of perfect bread, with all the features that you need. It is lacking a backlit display, but that's really only needed when starting the machine or determining how much time is left, so perhaps it is more reliable without it. The included recipes are okay, but there are a wealth of recipes on the web and in other cookbooks (such as the somewhat dated Electric Bread cookbooks) which turn out better than ever before. Breads have a perfect crust on all sides, thanks to the heating element in the lid.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Posted by: Bruce A
from Georgia
Gender:Male
Verified Purchase:Yes
I've only used it once and it seems to work well. I just have one major complaint. All of the preset programs and recipes call for "rapid rise yeast". Rapid yeast does not make good bread in my opinion. I never ever use it in any bread making. That means that all of the preset programs on the machine are useless to me. The "cookbook" recipes that come with it also only use rapid rise yeast making the whole cookbook useless also. The only setting I can use is the "homemade" setting where I have to blindly figure out the amounts to use in my recipe, the time to knead, the time to rise, the time for second rise, and time to bake. If you want to use normal regular yeast then Zojirushi leaves you totally in the dark and on your own about your recipe, amounts, and times. Really sucks. It will take me dozens of loaves of bread to figure out how to use this machine with regular yeast. Maybe by next year sometime I will be turning out a good loaf of bread ? The only other problem is you cant set the mix/knead time for longer than 30 minutes. I need 41 for my recipe.
I would recommend this to a friend!
Response from zojirushi.comBy Zojirushi Customer Service, May 15, 2023
We appreciate you sharing your feedback about the breadmaker. We used to design the recipes with Active Dry Yeast, but we got a lot of feedback from customers who preferred rapid-rise yeast since it's more widely available. We do have recipes with active dry yeast on our website, and if you would like, the instruction manual for the BB-PAC20 is full of recipes using active dry yeast as well. https://www.zojirushi.com/servicesupport/manuals/manual_pdf/bb_pac20.pdf
We hope this helps!
We hope this helps!
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Posted by: Mike PNW
from Shelton WA
Gender:Male
Verified Purchase:Yes
Best bread machine out there! Consistently makes excellent bread time after time. I no longer buy bread at the store! :)
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Posted by: N O Baker
from Venice FL
Gender:Male
Verified Purchase:Yes
Great product, perfect bread the first time! And I’m no baker!
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Posted by: Hood Rat
from Mom's Basement
Gender:Male
Verified Purchase:Yes
Probably the coolest machine I ever bought and glad i got this one. Reading review after review of other machines on the market. I decided this was the one, no regerts... everything that I have thrown at it has been amazing so far, sticking to recipes... the lemon loaf/cake turned out fantastic(online recipe).
Seriously, worth the money, and super essy to clean the pan and paddles...
If you are on the fence of buying one for the last 7 years like I was, just get this one... You just add your ingredients(wets first), close the lid, hit a start button and come back in 3ish hours to a freshly baked item...
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Posted by: Aarzeno
from Bristol, CT
Gender:Female
Verified Purchase:Yes
The best investment anyone can ever make. I am amazed at the quality of the machine itself and everything that it is capable of doing. Will highly recommend.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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