March 9, 2017 - 1:43am
How big a dough?
I have found a "Dutch Oven" that can fit my oven. At last!
This is a silicone casserole pot and is just perfect for my limited means. I have a mini oven which stands on the work surface and until now have had problems getting any sort of pot to fit. A lekue (a silicone pouch) was the next best thing. It did a good job but nothing like a dutch oven. This casserole pot is also made of silicone and has a lid. The dimensions are 1.5 litre. 24.5 x 21 x 11cm H. including handles.
How big a dough do you think it can take and what dimensions banneton should I use?
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until I took off the handle for the lid, plugged the hole with a piece of chop stick and turned the lid upside down. It now works great. I have 9" of clearance for the height and your pot is only 4.5" tall? Very tiny/
Just treat the pot like like a bread pan. Fill it with water and weight the water. IF you expect your dough to double for proof and oven spring then divide the water weight by 2. If you are making a rye bread and only expect a 70% rise then divide by 1.7
Just proof the dough ion the pot and put it into a hot oven when proofed. You will have to add some time for the pot to come up to temperature. I use 15 minutes. I usually steam for 20 minutes for a hot pot but do 35 minute before taking off the lid and then the time to finish is the same.
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To know exactly what it'll be like. All the ones I've bought, till now, have been so big the oven can fit into the dutch oven but now it seems it'll be too small. Unless you have a very big oven where you don't have to be concerned at all and just buy whatever you like it's almost impossible.
It'll come into good use even if not the best thing for bread. Oh well.
should crowd fund you a new and larger oven?! You've given so much to this site, we should give back .. start a crowd source go fund me page and send it out into the world.. see what comes back.. I'm in for a donation! :)
Appreciate the gesture but not much room to fit a normal sized oven. This one is microwave size (it actually replaces my old microwave).
The DO has arrived and eyeballing it I think it can fit a respectable 500g sized dough. I've got a 50%+ ish khorasan dough which is 700g on the go. It might still work even though I'm pushing the outer limits here. Then again khorasan isn't such a good riser so might get away with bigger dough's made with rye, spelt, khorasan etc.
It's very well made. Sturdy but collapsible. I do like it alot and think it's a good buy. If they made one 1/3rd bigger it might just still fit and would be perfect!
I'll let you know how it goes.
What size is your mini oven , what brand is it ?
This is the oven https://www.andrewjamesworldwide.com/kitchen-c1/kitchen-electricals-c7/ovens-hobs-c56/20-litre-mini-oven-and-grill-p148
Nifty little thing.
I have a Breville roast and toast benchtop oven . It measures 210 mm between elements , so allowing for the bottom rack to be 40 mm above the element , the cast iron casserole dish or the cast iron camp oven , being about 115 mm tall , gives about a 55 mm clearance from the top element .
Baking at something between 160* -180* C and and a longer cook time , ( preheating the oven , not the cast iron) , a 6 -8 cup loaf of bread bakes extremely well .
The permanent fan-bake helps too