Loaf pan breads work beautifully with my method
People think of artisan-style loaves as being free-form, but my high-moisture, stored-dough method also works beautifully in loaf pans. Read on to hear more about getting great results with traditional un-coated loaf pans.
In the books, I’ve tended to be on the careful side about loaf pans. Since this dough is so wet, I recommended non-stick pans and even so, to grease them well. Yet a very heavyweight aluminum pan works beautifully too– all you have to do is grease it well (I like olive oil even for American-style breads but you can use any liquid or solid shortening you like):
… and be sure the formed dough is well dusted with flour before putting it into the pan— it shouldn’t feel all sticky as it goes in. If it does stick a bit, just let it sit for 10 minutes after taking it out of the oven and it will “steam” itself out. I love this pan, and when I say it’s heavyweight, I mean it. The pan weighs a full pound…
This was a big loaf 2 pounds, 5 ounces of dough, using my Master Recipe. Loaves this large need to rest for 90 minutes after shaping, and they tend to need extra time in the oven. For this size, a lean dough needs 45 to 60 minutes at 450 degrees F, and enriched doughs will need about an hour at 350. Or more. If you’re finding that there’s over-browning or scorching in your oven at this temp, try again 25 degrees lower (Fahrenheit) and increase the bake-time by 10 or 15%. Go by the loaf color and the firmness of the crust:
A reader recently asked about REALLY big loaves, in a 16-inch long pan (but still 4 inches by 4 inches h*w), in a pan like this one. That’ll work too, but you need a lot of dough: 54 ounces / 1530 grams, almost a full batch of my Master recipe. Have a great fall, and follow on Twitter, and on Facebook too…
Red Star Yeast (Lesaffre Corp) sponsored this post, and supplied yeast for recipe testing.
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Great first book! Please enter me in the contest. Thanks!
Red Star makes great products and thanks for the additional tips on using the pans!
I love your books. I have been experimenting with variations of all sorts. Most of my loaves are free form but I’d love to start making sandwich bread but just haven’t gone and gotten a new loaf pan to replace the one my almost 2 year old broke.
I would love to win this package! I would like to make bread more often and have been drooling over your books for quite some time now. How exciting!!
What a great prize. I know my breads would be tons better with this awesome pan. Thanks for the chance.
I LOVE to make the artisan bread. i hope to get the books for christmas.
Just baked up two loaves of the honey-raisin bread from your second book (minus the raisins, since my daughter doesn’t care for them). Delicious, soft wheat bread–they came out gorgeous in my ceramic loaf pans. Thank you so much!
I’d love to be entered in this contest!!
Thanks so much for introducing me to the world of baking bread! and for offering this awesome contest 😉
This makes me want to bake bake bake bread!
I’m interested to learn that these pans work. And I love Red Star Yeast!
I teach ABin5 classes at our local jr. college for adult education. I bought the book 2 years ago and had to have HBin5! The method really promotes healthy eating! Makes it easy and affordable to have really great tasting bread. And I too, always use Red Star yeast. Their bread machine yeast is waaay too easy to use!
Red Star Yeast is what I use for my 5 Minute loaves!!
I’ve never tried Red Star! I’d love to be entered to win. I have both of your books and would love to have these pans. My free form needs work and I get discouraged by it so a “good” pan would really help me out.
I’ve baked my way through 5 minutes a day, and would love to try everything again in loaf pans! Count me in!
I love the look of that Danish Dough Whisk! New pans wouldn’t be too shabby either. I hope I win.
My 11 year old won the 4-H County Bake Off with your Artisian Bread recipe. 🙂
Hi Jill, that is so cool!!!! I can’t wait to tell my 11 year old.
Thanks, Zoë
I should have never come over here – that cinnamon toast has my tummy growling now! Looks delicious!
I love Red Star Yeast but can never find it in jars – out of all the yeasts I have tried, theirs never fails me!
I am a college student, so I would be very happy if I won this give away! Because right now, I can’t afford to purchase the great pans!
I LOVE your books and I have to say, I convert at least 1 person a month over to your methods (sometimes more!). I would love to try Red Star yeast, as I’ve never seen it in my parts ….plus a big pan would be wonderful!!!!
I love using Red Star Yeast and I’m in desperate need of a new loaf pan!
I would absolutely LOVE this package! I am a newbie bread maker and am still slowly gathering needed materials! I don’t have a loaf pan yet I have just been doing boules. Pick me! LOL Thanks!
What a great opportunity! Enter me in the drawing, please.
I am so happy for fall weather because I am making bread every day again!
Love all the recipes we’ve tried so far in both your books. Bought everything again for my loves-to-bake niece! An entire recipe of bagels was demolished as our first batch. Her husband is in the army and TALL and big. Four of us ate all the bagels! Yum!
I will have to try some of your recipes in loaf pans, I think we would use more of them that way — lots of sandwiches and toast around here!
I found you via a friend, and have found some very interesting information! My bread machine recently died, and we used it all the time, so I have been trying to make bread without it, and have had some issues with it not coming out right.
Every recipe from this book turns out awesome. I bake from it all the time.
I love bread and so does my husband! Can’t wait to try this recipe, but I’ll have to go to the store and get some ingredients:) Would love to be a winner as I never win anything I sign up for:(
Thanks! My 25 year old is now baking his own bread after I introduced him to you cookbook!
I would love to win this! My family demands fresh bread all the time.!
love the bread recipe – thank you for making artisan bread recipes ‘user-friendly’
please enter me in this contest, too. thank you.
oooh new pans would be lovely! My family is addicted to your breads!
Lovin me some new loaf pans & equipent to use in making artisan bread in five minutes a day for my tea room!!!!!
hope it’s not too late to comment and enter the contest. baking bread for sandwiches seems like the very best most versatile shape for our family.
thanks
Thanks for demystifying bread baking. Now that the weather’s cooler, I’m going to enjoy that smell of bread fresh out of the oven!
A friend told me about your recipes and your books. I recently got Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day, and have been enjoying the regular wafts of fresh baked bread throughout my house.
What a great giveaway. Thanks Red Star Yeast!
Everytime I bake a loaf of bread I am so grateful to you both for the inspiration!
i can’t seem to find cast iron loaf pans with lids. i have a glass loaf pan with a lid. i plan to grease it well and use flour to prevent sticky dough. i don’t have a baking stone yet; must i get one? must i preheat the glass loaf pan as you recommend for cast iron?
Hi Cindy,
No, you don’t need to preheat the glass pan. You can just butter the pan well and that should do the trick. You don’t need a stone, but you may eventually want to give it a try, it does improve the crust on the bread.
Thanks, Zoë
I love your books! Word has gotten around about my bread making (thanks to you) and I have been asked a couple of times to teach your method to some women’s groups that I am involved with. Please enter me in the giveaway contest.
Great contest! I just bought your books a week ago, but I have made 5 loaves already. I’m really enjoying it!
Who couldn’t use some new equipment? Sign me up!
~~Just found your blog recently..Your breads look awesome can’t wait to try some recipes! New pans would be gr888,Thank You!~~
I just found out about your book and this would be a great way to get started
2# pans sound wonderful. Are they also available for purchase. Have made many loaves from your original ABi5 book. My friends rave about how delicious the bread tastes!
Hi Sharon,
All of this equipment is also available from Red Star Yeast. If you follow the links at the bottom of the post you can find all the info.
Thanks, Zoë
I started buying Red Star yeast in the bulk container when I baked four loaves of bread a week for my young growing family. I used a bread recipe that included cottage cheese as an ingredient for a high-protein bread.
I have been very successful selling my bread using Bread in 5 minutes recipe and Red Star yeast at our local Farmer’s Market here in Southport, NC. Thank you for a wonderful book(s) and for promoting a good product like Red Star Yeast
Thanks for the give-away opportunity… I love your first book and am hoping to try out *Healthy Bread* very soon…
I have really been enjoying both books and could definately use some new equipment to help with the bread baking!