September 9, 2010 - 10:42am
Home made proof box
Hi!
Since the Fall/Winter is approaching... I was wondering if anyone ever built a home made proof box before with great success? Last winter I just put my loaf in the microwave with my loaf resting on top of hot water. Today is the first day where my kitchen is just too cool and it's taking my loaf forever to double for my s/f.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Happy baking!
LeeYong Rolfmester@yahoo.com
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LeeYong,
I've constructed and used the proof box shown here with good results.
SteveB
www.breadcetera.com
and I can vouch for its versatility. You'll love it!
Yippee
While you are building a more permanent proof box, you could use your unheated oven by using its built-in light bulb. With the door closed, I measure my oven's temperature at near 90ºF and by adjustment in the slightly open door can control it from about 85º to 90ºF.
SteveB's box certainly is the better long term solution ;)
Ron
I think it would be a nice contribution to have pics posted on the subject. Then others could refer to them, if you did post pics that made the configuration clear.
The photos do a great job of "hanging flesh" on your earlier description. Thanks for the informative work.
Ron
I use an aquarium heater placed in a tall heavy jar filled with water and placed in a largish cooler/ice chest covered with a heavy bed spread. Provides excellent temperature regulation and has only three parts, but a digital thermometer with a remote probe is a very nice accessory. BTW, the heater temperature is adjustable and I originally used this for incubating tempeh.