December 4, 2019 - 9:11pm
Using glass casserole to bake no knead bread
I know very well the gold standard of baking dish for artisan bread and no knead bread is dutch oven but it is too expensive in my country! (at least $500HKD for 2 quart) so i bought a casserole that is made of borosilicate glass instead. Some say the dish should be preheated along with the oven to reach 220 degree, or should i simply place the casserole (in room temperature ) into the preheated oven(220degree) ? oven spring is good but avoiding exploded dish due to thermal shock is my top priority!
Cecilia
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Butter and flour casserole before adding shaped dough and let the dough final proof inside the casserole. Then bake with or without the lid, up to you. If your oven is small, the glass lid will protect the top of the loaf from setting too soon. Remove after spring to help brown the loaf.
Careful when setting the hot lid and hot casserole glass on cold surfaces, use a folded towel or wire rack under the hot items until they can be touched.
Oven safe glass is not able to withstand the thermal shock of hot-to-cold. It will shatter in a million pieces! As MiniOven says, also protect it when removing from the oven from the thermal shock of placing on a cold surface.
I use Corningware casserole dishes for baking my wide pan sandwich loaves. Works great!
Check out the comment from trailrunner. It's cheaper, fast heating.
I actually used a borosilicate glass casserole dish for my no-knead bread and it never exploded but I can't guarantee that you're a will not explode.
I do have a silicone pad that is intended for placing hot pots on the counter, which is perfect to place the hot casserole dish on after taking out out of the oven so it doesn't explode on my cold granite countertop.
I have baked a few loaves in a cold casserole dish but had a lot of problems with it sticking, so I covered my dough with corm meal and it mostly eliminated the sticking problem. The strange thing was that the baking time was barely a few minutes longer than using a pre-heated casserole dish and the oven rise was lower but the loaves were all good and we enjoyed them.
Hi I'm from HK too
I bought a glass casserole from o'cuisine few days ago and I just used it preheated 230'c for no knead bread, I didn't think too much and used it right away as the product description said it can. I dropped the room temperature dough in and it turns out fine and gave nice oven spring compare with just baking on the pizza stone.
I use a clay pot in my oven along with 2 Dutch Ovens. I can fit all three in there (barely). I actually use mine upside down on a baking stone. but i think a clay pot with a lid should work fine. if there's a hole in the lid, just plug it up with foil.