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Item #: BB-218
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Mimic a wood-fired oven in your conventional oven with a La Cloche Bread Baker. The bell traps the steam and maintains an even baking temperature to give you moist bread with a golden, even and crackly crust. The La Cloche (with its base which is included) measures 30cm in diameter and overall height 17cm giving plenty of room for a 1kg loaf while fitting on your oven shelf. We include our own special recipe booklet to get you started. See what Dan Lepard and Vanessa Kimbell have to say about them on Vanessa Kimbell's blog.

Based on ancient Greek and Roman baking traditions, the La Cloche is made from Superstone®, a natural stoneware, fired at over 1000°C. It is oven and freezer proof and is easy to clean, requiring only to be soaked in warm water so that any baked on food may be scraped off.

 

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Average Rating: (based on 11 reviews)

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by Steve
on 15/3/2013
Essential
I bake several times a week for B&B guests, so quality and consistency are key. The cloche has revolutionised my baking. It produces a crust that I could never achieve with the oven alone and increases oven spring by a considerable amount. It is a very forgiving piece of kit, which means minor mistakes in proving are not reflected in the final product. Without a doubt an essential piece of baking equipment.
by Susan
on 17/2/2013
Essential kit
I bought my cloche a year ago and never looked back. It transformed my dodgy sourdough bread bricks into proper risen crusty loaves the very first time I used it. I always leave the cloche base in the Aga overnight, so when the bread is gently tipped onto it next morning after an overnight fridge prove, the base starts cooking the loaf straight away and it doesn't start spreading. I've experimented by soaking the cloche lid in a sink of water overnight so it pumps out steam once in the hot oven. I also use my cloche for cooking chickens or belly of pork on a bed of root veg, so it's a multi-tasker and a great investment for any kitchen whether you bake bread or not.
by Robert
on 30/12/2012
Very useful addition to the kitchen.
I'm impressed. I have just used 'La Cloche' to make a white sourdough loaf following a recipe (River Cottage) I've used several times before with indifferent success. Somehow I never managed to achieve the spring and lightness I was looking for, but 'La Cloche' has produced exactly what I have been wanting, without spraying water or using ice-cubes, etc. I did take the time to season the base with a light coating of oil before use, and I can see the sense of doing this. I also pre-heated the Cloche before transferring the proved dough to it and baking. The instructions are not clear but seem to indicate putting the dough into a cold Cloche for baking. I wasn't keen on this and have not regretted pre-heating.
by James
on 10/12/2012
Use it everytime.
Use it for all my sourdough. Helps with a good spring in the oven and allows you to cook the loaf with a light crust if you prefer (my children do). Has helped improve the consistency of my bread making. No more ice cubes or water in the bottom of the oven. Just empty the proving basted onto the heated base pop the top on, bake for 30 or so mins with the top on and remove to brown. Throughly recommended.
by Carol
on 2/7/2012
Superb results
Learning to bake sourdough bread was one of my winter tasks but I really struggled with creating steam in my fan oven. And carrying trays of boiling water is not recommended for an accident-prone pensioner with poor spatial orientation. I discovered La Cloche in the review by Vanessa Kimbell and ordered it. The results are very impressive; I'd not achieved the oven spring and cracking crust before. I can recommend it with no reservation whatsoever. The bread has a wonderful shape (important if not using a banneton) and moistness and keeps well. The only difficulty lies in persuading my grandchildren to wait until it cools down!
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