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Is it lidded? I could see the steam if it had a lid but I don't know about just a regular bread pan shaped in clay.

 

No lid. The clay loaf is slightly "fluffier" but I'm guessing that's just because it's risen a bit more (about an inch higher).

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No lid. The clay loaf is slightly "fluffier" but I'm guessing that's just because it's risen a bit more (about an inch higher).

 

Huh. I do bake in clay bread pans without lids, but I don't remember the last time I baked in metal for comparison.

 

With a lid like a la cloche surely it gets more steam and oven spring, but without I wonder.

 

I think clay takes longer to heat up but holds the heat well. So maybe it gets slightly more oven spring since it heats slower and doesn't cross that threshold of dough to bread? I'm not sure. Maybe like SIS said, it is porous.

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Huh. I do bake in clay bread pans without lids, but I don't remember the last time I baked in metal for comparison.

 

With a lid like a la cloche surely it gets more steam and oven spring, but without I wonder.

 

I think clay takes longer to heat up but holds the heat well. So maybe it gets slightly more oven spring since it heats slower and doesn't cross that threshold of dough to bread? I'm not sure. Maybe like SIS said, it is porous.

 

It does take longer to heat up. That would be why a pizza crust recipe calls for preheating the stone itself--so the crust will be crisp on the bottom. Pizza dough would be something you don't want rising much more.

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