My wife brought home a great thrift store find today: a bread maker called the Hitachi Automatic Home Bakery HB-B101. She bought it half price for $3.50! It looks like it is in great shape. The only problem is that its manual is missing. I’ve been spoiled by the availability of product manuals online and thought, “big deal! I’ll just find it online.” Well, in this case the manual is pretty good at being a fugitive: No matter how I search for it, all I get is links to other people looking for it, or links to eBay listings where it is selling for upwards of $15. The Hitachi site was not helpful — the only section on bread makers is in Japanese.
Fortunately, our basic recipe is printed on a sticker the side of the machine:
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| From Hitachi HB-B101 |
I posted it here because I got the sense from my web hunt that this isn’t printed on every version of this machine.
Another thing we had to figure out is that you have to snap the bread bowl down into place securely before it will let you start the mixing/kneading/baking process. A lot of people (us included) were getting an Error message (blinking E) until we figured this out.
In case someone else who bought one of these didn’t get the recipe, here you go:
MAKING LOAD BREAD (must be a translation thing)
Water: 3/4 cup
Bread Flour: 2 cups
Salt: 1 teaspoon
Sugar: 2 tablespoons
Butter: 1 tablespoon
Dry milk: 1 tablespoon
Dry yeast: 1-1 1/2 teaspoons
1. Pour 3/4 cup of water into the bread pan.
2. Add all dry ingredients except the DRY yeast.
3. Place the DRY yeast on top of the DRY flour. Do not mix.
4. Press the START button
“Your oven-fresh bread will be ready in 4 hours and 10 minutes. It is more convenient if you use the built-in delay timer.”
Thanks to someone who posted at this website, here is the recipe for a large loaf (though I’ve never seen a 9/16 measuring cup before):
Water 9/16 cup (4.6 oz)
Fresh milk 9/16 cup
bread flour 3 cups
salt 1 1/2 teaspoons
sugar 3 tablespoons
butter 1 1/2 tablespoons
dry yeast 1 teaspoon (”bread” setting)
2 teaspoons (”bread rapid” setting)
If anyone who has found the post has an electronic copy of the manual, I’d sure appreciate it. During my search I did find an article about how to use automatic bread makers in general: http://www.hillbillyhousewife.com/breadmachinemanual.htm
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odograph // January 25, 2008 at 5:44 pm
I think I’ve got that machine. It’s my 3rd breadmaker. I wore the old ones out (took one to work and made a loaf of bread every day for a year).
Anyway, and “3 cup” recipe should work. By 3 cup I mean three cups of wheat (usually white) flour, and maybe another cup of grains or non-white flour.
my favorite recipes are here.
I usually make the 9-grain, but sometimes the oatmeal as well.
Melody // January 26, 2008 at 10:04 am
I just dug the same machine out of my parents garage a few weeks ago. Although, mine does not have the instructions on the inside….I’ve just been figuring it out as I go. I too had the same problem with getting the Error message. The main problem I’m having is knowing when to add raisins for my raisin bread. The recipes I’ve found say that there is a raisin/nut cycle on most machines, or to wait for the beep to signal this before the last knead. Does your machine have anything listed about that, or have you found any info regarding that in your search. Thanks!
odograph // January 28, 2008 at 10:52 am
I had one of the old “R2D2″ models that beeped. It worked pretty well with raisins. I pretty much accept that my Hitachi will tear them up. I’d say to make really good looking raisin bread use the “dough” mode and a bread pan.
On the other hand, the bread I made recently, when the chopped dates I added disappeared completely, still tasted pretty good. (One cup dates is too sweet for me, next time … 1/4?)
Dough mode is fun for pizzas too …
Tori // January 29, 2008 at 1:46 am
I just bought my Hitachi today at the Goodwill for ..get this…$2.00!! Cool huh?! I figured for $2 if it didn’t work I could just take it back or put the parts on Ebay. I brought it home and used the instructions on the sticker for a large loaf. It was great except the crust was too crusty. Hubby hates crusty bread. Do you know how to adjust the crust setting? I, of course, have no instructions for this machine. I have no idea what the settings are. I want to have the machine do the work of mixing and kneading, then I put it into pans for the baking. I have to do this in order for the bread to make normal sized sandwiches for my hubby’s work. Thanks!
willswords // February 1, 2008 at 10:34 pm
Odograph, Thanks for the link to your recipes! Melody, I’m sorry to say I have no idea about the raisins. And Tori, I can’t believe you beat our $3.50 deal - we shoulda talked them down.
As far as the crust setting goes, unfortunately again I have no idea, although you might experiment with how much yeast you use (just a thought).
bbct // February 9, 2008 at 12:58 am
just recovered this HB-B101 from storage,no documents. Would like to know its capacity and if it will handle the ingredients for a 2 lb. loaf.
thank you.
willswords // February 17, 2008 at 12:44 am
Now that we have had the bread machine almost a month, I can really vouch for odograph’s white bread recipe. We use it and sometimes substitute 1 or 2 cups of wheat flour for the white flour and it always comes out great! Here is the link again: http://www.odograph.com/experiments/bread/index.html
Oli // February 26, 2008 at 9:27 am
I’ve been looking all over the net for the manual as well…looks as though you have to buy it:
From the Hitachi Website US portal…
http://www.hitachi.us/Apps/hitachicom/content.jsp?page=index.html&&path=jsp/hitachi/forhome/HomeAppliancesSupport/
You can purchase the owner’s manual or cookbook for your Hitachi model Breadmaker for $10.00 plus a shipping and handling fee through our Authorized Parts Distributor, Pacific Coast Parts.
Pacific Coast Parts
Attn.: Hitachi Owners Manual
2114 SE 9th Avenue
Portland, OR 97214
Tel: 800-338-6342 and press 1
Fax: 800-962-0602.
This is no good to me in Canada, so if you do get one I don’t suppose you could scan it into your computer and e-mail it to me could you?
Regards from Cannuckistan!! :o)
willswords // March 8, 2008 at 12:11 pm
Thanks Oli for explaining how to get the manual!
Here is yet another recipe for a Hitachi bread machine, this time from commenter Trudy Powell at http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf838388.tip.html :
And here is a whole slew of bread machine recipes: http://breadnet.net/
Jerri // April 5, 2008 at 8:58 pm
Hi Will. I can beat your deal. =) I got mine for FREE off Freecycle.Org. However, like you, I didn’t have a manual. I have found a scanned version online if you would like it. The address is http://www.larrylynchimages.com/ftp/HB-B101Manual.pdf. I have no affiliation with the site, but I certainly appreciated them sharing. I thought you might too.
Happy baking!
Jerri
willswords // April 5, 2008 at 9:50 pm
Wow Jerri! Great find. I especially like all of the cute anthropomorphized bread maker images in the manual. It reminds of a story I heard on Studio360 about cuteness and Japanese culture: http://www.studio360.org/yore/show060405.html (but I digress)
Cleo // April 18, 2008 at 9:26 am
I own a Hitachi HB-B101.
I have the manual.
Schteve // May 23, 2008 at 6:04 pm
Thanks, Jerri! Your scanned version of the manual saved the day for us!
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Don Diego // May 31, 2008 at 4:07 am
For the preparation of raisin or nut or other breads use the “Mix Bread” cycle on the menu buttons. Add the raisins, walnuts, vegatables, and other ingredients 4 minutes before the kneading process is finished, the machine beeps 3 times to tell you when to add these ingredients.
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Bobbie // June 4, 2008 at 5:04 pm
I have an Hitachi HB-B101 plus the instruction manual that came with it from a thrift shop. I have been baking GREAT breads for several months. Today the “E” signal came on after 4 minutes into the baking process. I have done everything the manual suggests to no avail! Does anyone know where I can call for repairs?? Or ???
Thanks,
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