Zojirushi Home Bakery Maestro Breadmaker
Original price was: $357.49.$299.99Current price is: $299.99.
Price: $357.49 - $299.99
(as of Feb 24, 2025 04:09:26 UTC – Details)
Maestro is an Italian word for master, usually reserved for one who is the master of an art. The home bakery Maestro by Zojirushi gives you the tools and flexibility to express yourself through the art of bread making, and new course settings allow those of you with special diets or dietary restrictions to be the master of what you Eat. Your breads are made only with the ingredients you select by hand.
COMPACT MACHINE: Only 8 7/8″ x 12 1/2″ x 12 1/2″ x 13 5/8 ” in size
LOAVES: Bakes 10 varieties of bread in 1 lb loaf size
VERSATILE: 15 course selection includes bread, cake, dough and jam settings
CUSTOMIZABLE: Adjustable kneed, rise and bake times in Homemade memory settings
PRACTICAL DESIGN: Easy to read LCD control panel, non-stick pan and convenient carry handle
9 reviews for Zojirushi Home Bakery Maestro Breadmaker
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14carbonman –
Works well; beautifully built; high quality
The Zojirushi bread maker is a well-made appliance, with good instructions and recipe book. It makes one-pound loaves, with the ones we have tried having good taste and texture. We also made a satisfactory pound cake, and the Zojirushi web site has many more interesting breads and cakes to try. There are 15 settings that vary the timings of kneading and rising cycles for various kinds of bread and cakes, and also to allow removal of the dough so it can be made into other shapes and cooked in a regular oven. The adventurous user can program and store additional settings.It is easy to use, very quiet and unobtrusive, and the paddle leaves only a small slotted hole in the bottom of the loaf. We have not used the timer function or the dispenser for nuts or fruit.The pan is easy to clean, and the paddle can be removed most easily if allowed to soak for a while.
A. Giordano –
Great quality and easy to use
Love our Zojirushi bread maker, especially the quality of the machine and the size. It doesn’t take up too much space and the built-in handle makes it super easy to stow when not in use. Some bread makers are absolute giants, this is not. Only downside is the size of the loaf is rather small (they say half the size of a standard store loaf, which I think is a bit generous) but not a huge issue for us being we’re a small family, just know that if you’re a large family you’ll be making multiple loafs, and each takes 2.5-3 hours. But the results are great. Haven’t mastered it yet, but with every loaf each gets better and better.
Weezie –
Worth the money
I’ll keep this short since others have already gotten in specifics.After using under $75 bread machines for many years and not being particularly happy with the results, I decided to upgrade all the way to the top! Amazon offered a 5 payment plan so I had no reason not to get it,Since it is just the two of us and I am on a portion control diet, the 1 pound loaf is perfect. If some gets stale, it gets wrapped up and put in the freezer for bread pudding. Only made 2 loaves so far, white bread and a European herb loaf but both turned out perfect. The recipes are in a full color book with easy to follow directions.The machine is easy to use too. Just 2 or 3 buttons to push. Ingredients are listed in both cups/spoonfuls as well as grams. I like being able to be precise and be sure I have everything just right. I think the gram measurements make i a difference. Decent kitchen scales can be purchased for a reasonable.One thing I haven’t been able to figure out is how to measure 1 1/2 Tablespoons without using a scale. Maybe they have different measuring spoons in Japan. The company website has more recipes for the other machines they make but not this one, I sent a email to their customer service and got an almost instant reply telling me the recipes for the other 1 pound bread machine has not been tested on this one. I hope they have more to try soon. My next recipe to try will be making a cake!I highly recommend this 1 pound loaf bread machine if you want a easy to use machine that makes a great loaf of bread.
Jonathan Stafford –
Makes good bread with a little bit of work
I’ve made probably 45 loaves of bread with this machine, mostly White (using active dry yeast) or Quick White (using instant yeast). They’re easy to make and tasty following the included recipe book. I’ve even been able to adapt a few from various recipe websites by adjusting the ratios of the ingredients so the flour comes out to about 2C. Overall the machine works great, although I have a couple of medium complaint and a couple of small ones:My only real complaint is that the ingredients don’t always get mixed fabulously in the beginning (the water/fat will cause some of the flour/salt/sugar/yeast to stick to the wall) and so you’ll often end up with the burnt piles of stuff at the corner of the bread. If this ends up being most of your salt or sugar, the result bread is not great. To fix it I’ve been premixing all the dry ingredients except the yeast, and then scraping down the sides when the Add Ingredient beep happens. This means you get perfect, beautiful loaves with only a bit more work. While I’m home all day that’s no problem, but I may start to feel otherwise once that’s no longer the case.As for minor complaints, it would be great if it could detect that I’ve left out the mixer paddle (yet again), although I realize that’s probably challenging. It would also be nice if the instruction manual or recipe book could talk about how to go about making your own recipes. Like I said, I’ve had some success doing that, but it’d be nice if they explained how to go about designing one. There are several “homemade” modes, so I’m not sure why they didn’t do this.
Esteban –
I’ve never owned a bread machine before, but we were tired of poor quality bread from the store, and all my baking attempts were messy, time consuming, and poor results. I just don’t enjoy baking bread. So we were spending up to $6 for a loaf at the supermarket, and never happy.The first simple white loaf I baked in this little Zo was fantastic. Light, fluffy, slightly chewy, just amazing with a little butter. My yeast is 2 years past it’s sell date which I thought might be a problem, but nope, turned out just perfect. The crust is just the right crunch.I honestly can’t priase this little box enough. Worth every penny. It’s the right size for just the two of us, super simple to set up, put ingredients in and hit start. Maybe some raisin or banana bread next!
Amazon Customer –
Decided to go back to home breadmaking and this machine worked as advertised. We only need small loaves so it fit our needs. Very quiet, and the various bread recipes supplied are good. Seems very durable, so I’m sure we’ll have this for many years.
Lee Ung –
The bread machine arrived quickly — just the day after ordering! Excited to unbox it the minute it arrived. This is our first bread machine, and I was surprised by how user-friendly it is. I barely had to consult the user manual. Although it takes about 3 hours to bake a loaf, the wait is definitely worth it. Our first loaf turned out fantastic, with everyone in the house loving the fresh, delicious bread. Highly recommend!
Julie W. –
I bought this to take down to our home in Costa Rica where it’s hard to find good bread. I have the earlier version in Canada and I liked it fine, but this model is great. Like any bread maker, though, it takes some practice to accommodate the particular conditions of your location and quality of flour. In my case it’s warm and humid and the first loaf I made collapsed during the rise. The instructions suggest using ice water to compensate and that worked great. But I also checked the dough during the knead cycle, and in the case of the white bread it was very sticky so I added 2 T of flour, one at a time. (I don’t have a scale here which would have helped) The whole wheat bread was too dry at the knead stage, so I added some water. It is helpful to have had some handmade bread experience to assess the dough, but I think one would learn quickly what dough should feel like. But now that I’ve done it, I adjust the recipe and don’t even check. Last night I tried making raisin bread using the timer and the auto release and it worked great. Waking up to the smell of cinnamon bread is pretty special. The size of the loaf is small, but it’s a perfect size if you don’t like to eat bread that’s more than a day old. It’s plenty for a family at dinner. And it’s such a pretty little loaf. Expensive, but sure worth it to me.
Hugo –
This little machine is perfect for one or two. people. I had the larger Zojirushi and sold it because the bread was going stale or moldy before my spouse and I could finish it. It actually makes a nicer shaped loaf than the larger 2lb loaf Zojirushi, which often made loaves shaped like a ski slope. The company denies this problem and says it is the user’s fault. I tried every suggestion they gave and none of them solved the problem. This seems to be a problem with double paddle breadmakers. The single paddle vertical pan turns out a better shaped loaf.The only complaint I have is that the locking mechanism for the pan seems a bit lose. If you touch it even lightly it comes lose. Having said that, I have never had the pan come lose during kneading, however. It’s fine as long as you don’t touch it.I do miss the viewing window, but I can live with that. You can lift the cover to check on the bread and it doesn’t cause a problem.The only recipe in the cook book I’ve had a problem with is the European. It doesn’t brown enough for my liking and there is no option to adjust the browning for this course, course 2.I like this machine. All bread machines have flaws, but this one is probably the best on the market. It consistently makes well shaped, delicious loaves.An update to this review:I had to return my bread maker because the bread pan would not lock into place tightly. It was just a defect in this one machine I presume. I asked others in the question section if they had this problem and none had.