Price: $254.49
(as of Nov 22, 2024 04:20:09 UTC - Details)

Fill your home with delicious homemade bread aroma and enjoy a variety of freshly baked goods any time with Zojirushi Home Bakery Mini Breadmaker. Compact and slim, this awesome kitchen appliance takes up minimal space on your countertop while offering huge pay-off. Use it to bake various types of bread and cakes or make dough and jam. Why, with the easy to follow instruction video and recipe book you're sure to become a baker extraordinaire, at least in the eyes of your friends and family.
Perfect Size
Taking less than a foot of space on your countertop, the little machine will prepare a pound of bread in less than 2 hours. Want freshly-made bread for breakfast? The Home Bakery Mini 13-hour delay timer will sure be handy. Perfect size for singles, small families or anyone with discriminating taste and small kitchen.
Additional Features

• Three bread textures to choose from: Regular, Firm or Soft
• Cookie/Pasta Dough setting to prepare homemade cookies and pasta
• Menu settings include: Basic bread, French, dough, cookie/pasta dough, cake, jam and quick bread
• Sturdy handle for easy carry
• Easy to read LCD control panel
• cULus listed

COMPACT: Requires less than 1' of countertop space and makes 1-lb loaves
VERSATILE: Makes cookie dough, pasta dough and jam
BREAD SETTINGS: Basic bread, French and quick bread
CONVENIENT: Bakes bread in under 2 hours. 13-hour delay timer
EASY TO USE: Easy to follow video instruction included
Reviewer: Gary Yencich
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: The Little Bread Maker That Could
Review: I purchased this little guy in 2008. I used it for a year or two and then stuffed it in the back of the cupboard. It worked great but there were a lot of good artisan bakery options nearby. Fast forward to 2020 and with the pandemic options were fewer. I dug it out and plugged it in hoping for the best but expecting something to be wrong. Nope. It still works like a champ! It has a tiny squeak (like a mouse) while kneading but to tell the truth I think it did that when new. It still runs strong and makes great bread. It is easy to use and a perfect size for a 1 or 2 person household. The included recipes will get you off to a good start but I also picked up a couple of books here on Amazon—just be sure that anything you buy has ingredients computed for the smaller 1# loaf size. The two I can recommend are: The Bread Machine Cookbook by Donna German, and, Bread Machine Magic. Once you get the hang of it, it is easy to experiment and still get good results. I’ve even successfully made blueberry jam with this thing. I don’t know what to say about the reviewers that have had issues… all I can say is that my experience has been a good one and I would highly recommend this unit, especially for smaller households. *******The following recipe I downsized to work in the smaller loaf pan of the “Baby Zo” and is what is pictured below. Even so, depending on how active your yeast is you may need to adjust it up or down a little. You can see my loaf rose a little bit too high into the lid and so the top middle part, although fully baked, didn’t brown all the way. This bread is rich, tastes delicious and the fragrance of the herbs wafting through the air adds to the delight. Perhaps it’s not strictly necessary but I sauté the onion until translucent before adding. Note: Dill seed is not the same thing as dill weed. Weed is the light, blow-away stuff that is commonly sprinkled on salmon. You want the seed which is heavier and more like caraway except rounder. It’s available at the supermarket. It works best if everything is allowed to come up to room temperature first but the timer function shouldn’t be used overnight because of the fresh dairy. Use the basic setting. Enjoy! DAK Dill & Onion Bread 3 Tablespoons of Water 1/2 cup Cottage Cheese 1/2 cup Sour Cream 1 small egg (or 1/2 large) 2 Tablespoons finely minced onion 1 Tablespoon butter cut into quarters 1 1/2 Tablespoons Sugar 1 Tablespoon Dill Seed 1 teaspoon Salt 2 cups Bread Flour 1 teaspoon Active Dry Yeast

Reviewer: ChicagoLove
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Love it so far
Review: I'm a little concerned that right after I bought this Amazon posted a reported issue. I've made about or 5 or 6 loaves so far, and the only issue I've had has been a result of user error.The basic recipes in that come with the Zo are surprisingly very good. My favorite is the chocolate cake. It's super yummy and I plan to make a couple of loaves to give to others today.I've purchased a bread machine recipe book (to be delivered in a few days) and have been successful in finding several good recipes online as well.The mistakes/flops, so perhaps you can learn from my errors were 1st, putting the yeast in something other than a dry ingredient. DO put it into the flour and DO NOT let it touch a liquid ingredient. I failed at this directive when making some banana bread. I let the yeast mix into the banana and it was a throw away to be sure.The other mistake (super goofy) was forgetting to reinstall the mixing blade. I wash the machine after each use and I forgot to put that little piece back on. Don't do that! :)One thing I note that other reviewers seemed to have a different experience with was cleaning. I find you have to thoroughly clean it each time. This includes removal of the mixing blade so you can clean not only that piece, but the crevasses beneath it. It's not hard, but it's necessary. I also always seem to end up with "debris" (i.e. ingredients that are tossed out of the baking pan during kneading) in the unit. It's pretty easy to wipe out. I've also sucked it out with the vacuum attachments a time or two.Loaf size is smaller than some, but I think it's a great thing. Used it for holiday dinners and made several varieties and didn't have any waste. It's the perfect size for a small family. It makes about 6 very thick slices per loaf.And, btw, in my opinion, if you have a nice bread knife, a slicing mechanism is wholly unnecessary. I looked into buying one when I bought the machine and am now happy I didn't waste the money, or moreso space it would take in my cabinet.Overall, I like the machine. It's very easy to use. Just follow the instructions.Very small footprint. Wish it was stainless steel, but this unit still looks expensive (because it is! lol!) and high end. I'm happy with my purchase and would definitely suggest to others.

Reviewer: Marie M
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Love this machine!
Review: I am so in love with this little bread maker. I have made 4 different loaves so far and each one was so good. This is the perfect size for me and my husband. The bake is spot on. It is very quiet, so much so that I checked on it several times to make sure it was working! I highly recommend

Reviewer: David
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Top-of-the-line. Best of the best. And I've owned lots of breadmakers.
Review: (UPDATE: changed my rating to a four stars It loses one star because the little display is so dark. I have to constantly have a flashlight to read it.)I have to constantly have a flashlight to read it. I have 2020 vision almost impossible to read)The Japanese invented the bread machine. And they've learned a lot over the years. This machine has all the features you want. Simply displayed. Fantastic even heat. Great pan. Powerful 440 W motor. Makes more dough than what a 1 pound loaf needs for dough. Also makes jam And cookie dough. If this thing wasn't a bread maker, I would get married to it. So easy to use. I can't say enough good things about this product. The handle the cord storage. Just goes right under a table in the corner you don't even know it's there. Extremely high, build quality. I'm gonna stop now cause I'm making a fool of myself.

Reviewer: Will B.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Once you go homemade, you can never go back. I spoiled myself with bread I made using a stand mixer. I wasn't even doing a good job with it, the dough had the density of a brick, and the "bread pan" I was using was more of a desert loaf pan, and the slices were comically small. But yet, the bread was wonderfully moist, and the crust (the grossest part of store-bought bread) was flaky and delicious. I got store-bought bread again out of laziness, and even when it was still 2 weeks away from expiry, it tasted stale and rotten by comparison (despite being made with far more oil and preservatives). I wanted to keep making bread with the stand mixer, but it was just too many steps to make it a habit.This thing makes homemade bread easy enough and well enough that I cannot see myself buying store-bread ever again. The crust is the one thing that was disappointing at first, if you just set it on the default "normal" cycle, it turns out thick and tough, and is an absolute battle to chew. On my second go setting the crust to "light", it turned out much better (what they call "light" I'd call normal, it's still dark and crispy). The problem with the one-pan design is that you can't line the baking pan with butter the way you can when you mix dough in a different bowl. You can baste it with butter after it's cooked, but I think that's not the same.Still, that's a small price to pay for a process that is very little work (just measuring in a handful of ingredients, then set and forget), produces consistently beautiful results, and is basically no clean up work. The only things to clean are the pan and the paddle, which are non-stick coated. The pan wipes clean almost instantly. The paddle has a hole through it that can get encrusted with cooked bread and be a bit trickier to clean, but I got a straw/pipe cleaner that makes quick work of it.The "one pound" size is perfect for me, bread goes bad within a few days anyways, and how much can I really eat in that span of time. You might think "why not have a bigger bread-maker for the same price and just make a smaller loaf", and that would give away that you have far more storage space for kitchen appliances than I do. Small is a feature not a bug, as far as I'm concerned.

Reviewer: elsa rodríguez
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: El producto es de buena calidad, muy fácil de usar. El pan es pequeño pero más que suficiente para dos o tres personas. Llegó en buenas condiciones y días antes de lo esperado.

Reviewer: CalgaryPT
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: I like the simplicity of this. I've owned a few appliances by this manufacturer. Several have lost the clock function as the battery is not replaceable, but this model does not have a clock, just a timer. So that's good. Its simplicity is what sold me as many have way too many functions. I love that the bread loaf size is small (you may be shocked at how small). But bread w/o preservatives does go stale faster, so the small size is perfect for my wife and me. We originally got it because she can't eat soy or flax, which is in most multigrain commercial breads. We get probably 10 slices/loaf which is great as it just starts to go stale at the last piece.So easy to clean...it's almost effortless. Some experimenting is required to get the results you want. We tried regular flour, 100% whole wheat, 50/50 whole wheat, "Best for Bread" Flour, and Cinnamon Raisin bread. Wow. Best for Bread flour on "Soft" setting was a home run, but after a few tries the Cinnamon Raisin is the winner. The recipes included are just guidelines; we got best results for Cinnamon Raisin by eventually ignoring the recipe included and just using the white bread recipe with Best for Bread Flour, doubling the cinnamon to 2 teaspoons, doubling the raisons to 1/2 cup, and ignoring the instructions to add raisins when the machine beeps. Just add all the ingredients at the beginning, otherwise the raisins just attached to the outside of the loaf.The technology is obviously better than decades ago when all the loaves were hard if I recall. These are very nice and soft. My calculations in Canada show the cost/loaf is 66 cents vs. about $4 for store-bought bread, based on a 5Kg bag of flour (cost would be even less if I bought a larger bag).Great product. Will try gluten free and multigrain next. Don't be put off by the small loaf size. It is so easy to use you'll just make more as needed and it will never go stale.Highly recommended.

Reviewer: Marianne
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Excelente producto, hace el pan perfecto, también probé hacer mermelada y funciono genial.

Reviewer: Snek
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Our latest in a long line of bread machines was on its last legs (Cuisinart CBK-200); its first legs were none too steady. We had put up with its quirks for 3 years and it was still making nice loaves, but it needed a couple of cookbooks jammed beside the pan or it would shake itself off the counter. Poor mechanical engineering; not great quality build. Previously we had owned 3 different brands, all under $100. All crapped out in various ways.So, I was looking at this Zoji and its bigger sibling thinking maybe I'd get more if I paid more. I figured that lately, with the kids gone, the bigger loaves tend to get stale before we consume them, so why not save on counter space and purchase price.Pros:- It is evident immediately that there is quality in the build and I've yet to find a flaw in its engineering.- It has clean lines and takes up so little room that I consider that a bonus I can work into the price.- The pan, which in all other machines we've owned has been a weak point, is super solid. Cast.- Easy operation. Like all breadmachines, it's easy to load and clean.- Quiet. Very quiet operation. Though they can't be disabled, the beeps are not overbearing. I haven't tried the timed cycle but can only barely hear in our nearby bedrooms.Cons:- Can't see any yetLike to see:- The Cuisinart had an alert at the end of the last beat-down so you could remove the beater, if desired.Conclusion:Unless you are a family of heavy bread eaters, I can't see a reason for anything larger than this high quality, space-saving machine. Put it on the night shift for fresh bread in the morning then load it again if you like. It only takes a few minutes and the product is exceptionally tasty. At an on-sale price of under $150, this will pay itself of in less than three months at the rate we bake. I expect this thing to last years. If it doesn't you will read about it here.