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Tag: Bread machines

  • Zojirushi BB-PAC20

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    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 Recipe Tables

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    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…

  • Bread Machine Artisan Bread?

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    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 measurement for bread machines

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    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…

  • Panasonic SD-YD250 Bread Machine

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    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…

  • Bread Machines

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    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…