Description

Breadtopia’s Cloche Bread Baker is the secret to great bread every time. By simulating a hearth oven in your kitchen, the round cloche style of bread baker helped usher in an era of quality artisanal bread baking at home.

Baking bread in a covered vessel is a crucial part of getting the kind of artisanal results that we strive for out of a home oven where you do not have the ability to inject steam in the early baking process. Early steam is important for both getting good oven spring and also for creating that crisp golden-brown crust that we all love. The moist dough within the cloche creates the steam needed to produce both the crackly crust and a more open crumb.

Using a covered baking vessel for the first part of the bake eliminates the need for unpredictable spritzing of your dough, or putting a hot skillet with water in the bottom of your oven.

What we love most about this baker is the amazing thermal resilience of the clay; you can pre-heat it in the oven to 500 degrees and then plop dough directly into the base with no fear of it cracking.

Please note that this bread cloche is custom made to our specifications and is the 3rd version of this round dome-style baker we’ve carried over the past twelve years. It marries the best aspects of quality, price and performance.

Easy Care Instructions included.

Lead and Cadmium Free.

Manufactured in Portugal using the highest quality German clay.

Outside dimensions (for determining fit in oven): 12″ diameter (handle tip to handle tip), 10.75″ diameter (short axis) x 7″ high. Inside baking area: 9″ x 6.5″

Perfect for baking gourmet artisan bread right in your own oven
Made in Portugal of German Clay. The quarries in Germany where the clay is sourced are renowned for clay of excellent strength and thermal properties
The natural clay stoneware baking dish and domed lid simulate a hearth oven in your kitchen. The moist dough within the hot baker creates the steam needed to produce a delicious bread with a crackly, golden crust and a more open crumb. No need to add additional steam
Outside dimensions (for determining fit in oven): 12″ diameter (handle tip to handle tip), 10.75″ diameter (short axis) x 7″ high. Inside baking area: 9″ x 6.5″
Comes with easy use and care instructions