Flower pot as a cloche

[John Fahle]

As some of you know, I don't have a WFO, but I have a fairly serious gas oven with a pizza stone. The last time I made bread, I heated a large terra cotta flower pot to 550F along with the stone, then inverted it over the bread. Got a decent crust out of it (not as good as the WFO, but passable) and fantastic spring. Halfway through I vented it by placing firebricks (which had also been preheated) under the flower pot on two sides.

Just thought I'd pass this along to my WFO-deficient cohort.

[dmun]

This four quart pyrex bowl works good too, on a pizza stone or a WFO floor.



As an added bonus, you can see through it, to see if your bread is getting too brown.