Warning while Baking | The Fresh Loaf

Warning!!!! When baking bread do not accidentally drip any water on the glass of the oven!!! It will crack!!!! Seriously folks, don't do it. Ryan

Did you shatter the door? I've blown up a light bulb while spritzing the walls and shattered a hot pyrex pan by spilling water on it, but I guess I am lucky that my oven does not have a glass door.

Surely instead of putting an expensive part of your oven in jeopardy, IE- glass door, Pyrex pans, etc, and at the risk of severe damage to your self it would be much cheaper to buy a cloche. If that's too expensive, then make one as I did, well my husband did for me. Gives you a fabulous crust..... qahtan

I was cruising around the information superhighway and stumbled onto this web page: http://www.cookingwithcrack.com/bread/steam/index.html It shows a rather ingenious homemade steam injector. It doesn't look that difficult to construct. If I have time (and that is frequently not a given), I think I'll try to scrounge up the parts for this. I have an electric oven where the oven vent is under one of the stovetop burners, so it looks as if all I have to do is bend the tubing onto the vent and let the steam just flow in. Mr. Peabody

No it's just cracked. But I still won't be baking for awhile. Ryan