Testing the Emile Hentry Bread Loaf Baker

I really love to hand shape loaves, I am particularly found of the boule. But there are times that a standard loaf shape just makes more sense. Metal loaf pans never did what I wanted, but a few months back I recieved the Emile Henry Loaf Baker and today I gave it a try. Normally in the summer I only bake breads outside but because I was baking for a party I turned the oven on and decided to finally give the new baker a try. I did a standard lpain au evain and decided to bake side by side with a boule to get some comparison. I didn't proof the loaf in baker. I like my cloche to be hot and thought I would use the same approach. The only problem there was the warm weather had caused my dough to expand a little too much and too a little squish to get in. But it recovered from that quite nicely.