Virtuoso Zojirushi started production of BB-PAC20 Virtuoso bread machine before 2016. The following reviews describe and illustrate this machine: Zojirushi, by 2019, was marketing the BB-PDC20 Virtuoso Plus. I found a refurbished Virtuoso BB-PAC20 in an online store in early 2020. [Update. I later found the Bread Machine Diva site, which has material on Zojirushi’s…
Bread Machine Recipes Note I began to chart bread machine recipes when I realized that each manufacturer designs its programs for its machines. “Standard” recipes (e.g. Bread Lovers Bread Machine Cookbook) fail in some devices. I experimented with putting recipe information in tables in the TablePress plugin and storing and publishing the table on this…
Reasons a bread machine cannot be used, in the baking programs, to bake artisan bread: Gluten. The autolyze (a rest after mixing before kneading) and other rests during kneading allows gluten to form in a less structured way that produces the more open crumb of French bread and artisan loaves. Fermentation. Artisan loaves involve pre-ferments,…
Yeast for a Panasonic machine Low salt I had tried, with the machine I had before the Panasonic SD-YD250 bread machine (acquired in 2016), to use less salt than the recipe says. For a reduction of salt by 50%, I followed the rule of thumb of reducing salt and yeast equally by weight. For low…
I bought a Panasonic SD-YD250 bread machine in 2016. After some setbacks, I put it aside. I came back to it and spent time troubleshooting the main problem: the right amount of yeast for bread in this machine. Reviews at Everyday Sandwich and Make Bread at Home describe and illustrate this machine. Like other Panasonic…
Introduction Purpose Bread machines came on the market about 1986, and became popular outside Japan by the late 1990s. My first bread machine was a Black & Decker B1561. I replaced it with a Panasonic SD-YD250 in 2016, and a Zojirushi Virtuoso (the 2016 model, the BB-PAC20) in 2020 [Updated]. A bread machine is a…