I decided to try no knead bread and found the perfect covered pot at Goodwill - heavy, fired clay with a gorgeous cobalt blue glaze outside and creamy white inside, for $8.50.  I noticed and bought a new product at the supermarket - Crisco non-stick spray with flour.  I sprayed the inside of the pot and pre-heated to 500 degrees.  When I opened the oven and took off the lid, black smoke poured out of the pot, and left a glaze-like brown residue on that beautiful white surface.  So I called thir toll-free customer service number and complained.  They finally agreed that the can said "for all types of baking", and that their own research showed that 400 degrees was the uppeer limit.  They are sending me a check for $20.00

Ok, folks this has to be the bottom of the barrel when it comes to ignorance but here goes.....With what do I line my bread pans if different oils do not work and Crisco is forbidden.  Please note:

http://www.motherlindas.com/crisco.htm

.....all the possible health risks of hydrogenation ...(with Crisco)

There’s a new Trans Fat Free Crisco. Thankfully, it has not yet made it to all the grocery stores across the country, and some of you wouldn’t think of touching it even if it had. It’s made with sunflower oil, soybean oil, and “fully-hydrogenated” cottonseed oil.

According to lipid scientist Mary Enig, total hydrogenation produces only saturated fats, but these are usually as hard as a brick, and are “softened” up through a process called “interesterification.”

Interesterification involves the rearrangement of the fatty acids on the glycerol molecule or modification of the fatty acid composition to give new properties to a fat or oil without using hydrogenation. Enig says that restructuring through interesterification, which can be chemical or enzymatic, involves several solvents including hexane, a relative of gasoline. In the vegetable oil industry, such manipulation of lipids is referred to as the field of “structured lipids.”

I would avoid this new generation of Crisco and go back to butter and lard—the traditional fats of our ancestors. Another new "structured" oil on the market to avoid is Enova.

 So far my bread is very difficult to pry out of the pan, even with Crisco being applied.  My one Chicago brand pan is ok, but the others from A&P grocery stores require Thick layering of Crisco.  But if Crisco is now out of the question what do I use?

Like I said this has to be the dumbest question ever asked, but darn if I know the answer.  Baking the bread is easy, but I can not seem to pry the loaves out of the pans.........