A bread machine is great for bread-baking beginners ... I recommend using a kitchen scale for measuring out ingredients, but ...

Credit: Mallory Minich / Mashable Finally, I was curious to see if the machine could make other classic recipes, like banana bread (I added ... Plus Breadmaker because Zojirushi is the creator ...

Following the recipe book, I made basic white ... my time — mostly secondhand units — but the Zojirushi Virtuoso Plus blows these bread machines away. It's so easy to make a wide range ...

However, unlike other machines, it can only make 2-pound ... Over the years, I’ve made several other bread recipes with the Zojirushi Virtuoso Plus, trying out many of the other baking settings.

The Zojirushi features 14 preprogrammed bread settings (white ... wheat and gluten-free — using the recipes each provided with the machine. If a loaf turned out seriously undercooked, deflated ...

(For example, both Zojirushi machines featured stickers on the side with default recipes for their simple white bread, which made them easy to follow.) The machines that won out had intuitive and ...

Reading the manual and the recipe booklet for the Virtuoso ... In my wider tested review of the best bread machines, I found the Zojirushi Home Bakery Virtuoso Plus Breadmaker to be the most ...