This happens even if you’re making fresh dough. The smallest bit of moving air will give dough a skin. I work in a commercial bakery and we have steam injection ovens for that reason. I’ve also worked on a wood fired brick oven with no steam injection, and we used to spray water in with a pressurized garden watering can with a wand (like in the video)
You can get them for your home too. We were looking into it expecting it to be insanely priced, but I found one for about $1,200. That’s not just something we can crack off anytime, but whenever we get around to redoing the kitchen, I’m hoping we can pull it off. It’s a game changer if you bake a lot
I found adding a tray with water to the oven makes absolutely no difference to no tray and I find that annoying cuz c’mon you got steam there, do the thing dammit
You can heat up a dry tray and then spray water into it when you put the bread in but I don’t know how much of a difference that makes in a home oven. You could also just spray the loaf directly, or paint on some olive oil.
This happens even if you’re making fresh dough. The smallest bit of moving air will give dough a skin. I work in a commercial bakery and we have steam injection ovens for that reason. I’ve also worked on a wood fired brick oven with no steam injection, and we used to spray water in with a pressurized garden watering can with a wand (like in the video)
Interesting! This explains why the supermarket bakery I worked at had ovens that steamed everything.
Yup! Otherwise everything comes out white and chalky looking. Not very appealing, and hard on your teeth
My brother worked in a local bakery and they resorted to the method in OP’s post. Steam injection oven sounds rad though!
You can get them for your home too. We were looking into it expecting it to be insanely priced, but I found one for about $1,200. That’s not just something we can crack off anytime, but whenever we get around to redoing the kitchen, I’m hoping we can pull it off. It’s a game changer if you bake a lot
Every bread is like steamed bread? Huh.
I found adding a tray with water to the oven makes absolutely no difference to no tray and I find that annoying cuz c’mon you got steam there, do the thing dammit
You can heat up a dry tray and then spray water into it when you put the bread in but I don’t know how much of a difference that makes in a home oven. You could also just spray the loaf directly, or paint on some olive oil.