La Cloche Clay Bread Baker

La Cloche Clay Baker - Round

La Cloche - The real secret to great bread every time.

The La Cloche natural clay stoneware baking dish and domed lid will simulate a hearth oven in your kitchen.

The moist dough within the cloche creates the steam needed to produce a delicious bread with a crackly, golden crust and light crumb. Absolutely eliminates the need to spritz your bread, pour water in a hot skillet or any such thing to get the nice crust you are after.

We've been using ours for 17 years now and would not bake bread without it.

From Peter Reinhart's The Bread Baker's Apprentice...

"One method of simulating hearth baking is the use of La Cloche covered baker, a miniature ceramic dome that fits into your own oven. These are fun to use and do a great job of trapping moisture for a big oven spring and shine".

From Jeffry Steingarten's The Man Who Ate Everything...

"This device (La Cloche), manufactured by Sassafras Enterprises, is an unglazed ceramic dish with a domed cover that creates something like the even, penetrating, steamy heat or a brick oven. The tile underneath increases the stored heat in the oven and protects the bottom of the bread from burning. Elizabeth David's English Bread and Yeast Cookery (Viking) has a photograph of a nearly identical baking cloche from 500 B.C., excavated from the Agora in Athens."

Daniel Wing and Alan Scott from their book The Bread Builders, Hearth Loaves and Masonry Ovens...

"Baking with a cloche in a conventional oven has breathtaking results, if you have never baked in masonry before."

Outside dimensions (for determining fit in oven): 12" dia x 7" high.
Inside baking area: 10" x 5"
Both the round and oblong Cloches carry a 1 year limited manufacturers warranty.

Note: Rumors of problems with La Cloche breakage in shipment were very true until somewhat recently. Sassafras, the company that makes them, has since made significant packaging improvements which have greatly reduced the incidence of breakage. Coupled with additional measures that we take before they leave the Breadtopia store has reduced the incidence to almost zero.

La Cloche Clay Baker - Round reviews

Global Rating: 4.44 from 9 reviews

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Awesome it doesn't get any better...	Jan 6, 2012	Joe Ferri	Belleville Il US
The La Cloche arrived today. I read the reviews before purchasing and paid particular attention to the comments about seasoning of the stoneware since one of... more...
Bottom Cracked within the first 3...	Jan 5, 2012	Jeff	Cloverdale Ca US
We've been using the no kneed bread method for over a year now. The bottom of the clay baker broke some time within the first 3 months of using it. It... more...
worked, then cracked	Jun 15, 2011	Bill Schell	Warren NJ US
Definitely improved the crust of my breads. However, after a year of baking once a week, the bottom developed a crack which steadily lengthened until it was... more...
best thing that ever happened to...	May 9, 2011	JJ BEcker	BOS MA US
Works perfectly, buy it. See how trivial it is to make bread that is better than you can buy. I'm not kidding! I've been making bread for 30 years, and... more...
Great little clay oven	Jun 5, 2010	Joan Horne	Elysburg PA US
People don't believe I baked the loaves that I've made using this and the oblong clay baker. They are wonderful; you can't make a mistake if you use these.... more...

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