<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> I just bought my zo last friday. Before I bought it, I talked with a customer who going to buy her daughter inlaw a zo. She told me that she has own her machine for about three years and was very happy. And highly recommend the machine. I didn't know it was the cadillac of bread machines; I know consumer reports had a good rating. To night was the first night that I used a recipe out of manufactures book. The other two loafs I used the recipes for bread machines from GIG and they turned out great except it didn't rise like the picture. I think the liquid was too hot. Eemom