La Cloche Clay Baker

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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 13 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."

From The Bread Builders, Hearth Loaves and Masonry Ovens, by Daniel Wing and Alan Scott...

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

Unsolicited testimonial from Breadtopia customer Larry K. of Lincoln, NE...

"Eric, I just wanted to drop you a line and say THANK YOU very much. I
received my purchase on Friday. I have only been baking bread earnestly for
about a year and a half now. I have purchased books read articles, hunted
the internet for any info that would help me to make a decent loaf of bread.

I was resigned to using cake pans filled with water at the bottom of my
oven, having to religiously open the oven and spray my loaf, only to find
that I didn't really get the crust I was looking for, and holes, well I had
pretty much given up on being able to produce a decent hole. It got to the
point, that if I got a hole as big as a broken pencil tip that I was doing
great. But then I came across your website, I viewed your FREE let me say
that again (FREE) video and that's when I ordered the clay bakeware.

I want to say that after my first loaf using your no knead recipe and clay bakeware
that I got an amazing loaf of ARTISAN bread. And the holes, they're huge.
Again, thank-you for your online video and products. I will be purchasing
from you again, and I will be glad to let others know of your site.

With all sincerity, Larry K."

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.

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