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Artisan Style Bread
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Claypots can be used to make some of the best homemade artisan style bread you have ever tasted. The quality of the bread produced is far superior to a much more expensive bread maker, and you have more control over the finsished product. Claypots are also much easier to clean than a bread maker. The characteristics of claypot baking produce a moist bread that is easy to slice. There are many different techniques for producing great bread in a claypot and the results are just like baking in a bakers hearth.
Baking bread in a claypot offers many of the same benefits of other types of claypot cooking. You control the ingredients, so you can make a healthier bread than what you can buy at your local supermarket or health food chain. Since there is no shelf life you do not need to add preservatives. No artificial colors or flavors...unless you want them. Nothing beats fresh from the oven warm bread, or the lasting aroma that fills your home. Once you've tried baking your own bread in a claypot you won't want to buy your bread anymore.
The types of bread you can bake in your claypot are endless. There are bread recipes everywhere and they can be easily adapted to baking in a claypot. A good trick to get started in baking your own bread is to buy a "premixed" bread in a box usually sold for bread machines from campanies like Krusteaz. By making the adjustments below you can easily make many different kinds of bread. You can also look through the recipes on www.claypot.com for bread recipes that have already been converted for claypot cooking, or you can follow these simple guidelines and convert your favorite recipe yourself.
- Add 100 ° F to the baking temperature in the recipe
- Add 15 min to the bake time
- Remove the lid from the claypot (if using a lid) 10 minutes prior to completeion and let the crust brown to perfection.
That's it. Couldn't be simpler.
Depending on your needs there are several different claypots available for baking bread. We recommend using one of the following:
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