What's the best size to get for making 500 gm loaf of bread? Any good sources to buy?
I'm thinking these would make an excellent form for my future breads. I am trying to visualize how I might flip a bread onto a hot skillet... perhaps flipping to a parchment paper on the counter top and then placing in the skillet. i'm using a cast iron dutch oven and like parchment paper on bottom since it help keep some of the iron out of the bread.
Here's a pretty good list of dough sizes and brotforms. Personally I use a 8" brotform for 500 gram - 600 gram doughs, and use a 9" for 1000 gram doughs.
Two common ways to manage baking bread in a dutch oven (non combo cooker):
1) parchment paper used to transfer, as you noted
2) bake with a cold dutch oven.
There's a lot of discussion on using a cold dutch oven. I couldn't get as good of bake with this method, but others seem to have made it work.
Here's my weeknight 600 gram boules, using an 8" brotform, baked in a combo cooker.
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Apparently one day only.
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Yes, they're made in China...
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Here are two loaves identical recipe and baking specs. One was done in a more shallow 10” and the other was done in a taller more rounded 9”. Each loaf weighed 900 grams before baking. I ordered the 9” from King Arthur and I just ordered another one. Don’t know where they are made. Like the looks of the ones from SFBI also. Might order one of their smaller ones. FYI I’m a new baker so my loaves aren’t perfect in other ways either but this seemed like a no brainer height-wise to me anyway. Guess I have to add that the short one stayed refrigerated an extra hour while the first one baked and the combo cooker was brought back up to 500 degrees. Thought I would post to this older thread since I was looking for info myself.