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2 hours ago, cakewalk said:I never heard of twice-baking bread. What does this do?
It helps the crust stay crisp. With any bread, the crust gets softer as steam is leaving the cooling bread. So after it is cool, the second bake dehydrates the crust back to crispness, but the interior doesn't have enough time to get too hot, and so very little steam escapes. The convection fan helps to dehydrate it even faster.
2 hours ago, cakewalk said:I never heard of twice-baking bread. What does this do?
It helps the crust stay crisp. With any bread, the crust gets softer as steam is leaving the cooling bread. So after it is cool, the second bake dehydrates the crust back to crispness, but the interior doesn't have enough time to get too hot, so very little steam escapes. The convection fan helps to dehydrate it even faster.
2 hours ago, cakewalk said:I never heard of twice-baking bread. What does this do?
It helps the crust stay crisp. With any bread, the crust gets softer as steam is leaving the cooling bread. So after it is cool, the second bake dehydrates the crust back to crispness, but the interior doesn't have enough time to get too hot, so very little steam escapes. The convection helps dehydrate it even faster.
