– LoafNest World's Easiest Artisan Bread Kit. Cast Iron Dutch Oven [Blue Gradient] and Non-Stick Perforated Silicone Liner

Unbelievable results using this cast iron oven dish. Very heavy and very hot to handle. I bought silicone gloves and sit it on a wooden chopping board when I take it out of the oven. Bread is simple to make and no kneading required. Just mix in the evening and leave in a warm place. Ready to cook next day after it has doubled in size. Every loaf has come out perfect! Just lift it out the liner and no washing up required. My favourite is white wheat loaf with mixed seeds. Really delicious and beats M&S fresh loafs hands down. Tried lots of variations and all come out perfect in 45 minutes. Expensive initially but you won’t be disappointed. Bread maker now redundant as doesn’t come close. If you are considering buying one then just do it!

This is a perfect investment if you want to make your own bread , it's certainly robust and unique in the way to make and create a beautiful loaf of bread, the only downfall is the basic recipe, it's a bit bitty to start off with but adding different ingredients to it , will make it a perfect loaf of bread, simple and easy to use and yeah expensive it might be, it is worth its weight in gold . The recipes can be found in a PDF file if you look on line , you do not need to follow the one on the box , I just looked for Loafnest recipes online and it came up with that version . Only thing lacking in that basic recipe is oil , even the traditional bread making consisted of a form of oil , the best one I used was vegetable oil only 20 grams and extra 20 grams of water to make it more moister and yes it did work.

Wonderful, always a successful bake, looks great, easy to store, makes me 16 slices of toast, I do sourdough with wholemeal multi toasted seeds! Exceptional! Healthy and bonus slices are perfect for toaster, make 4 a week easily. Didn’t tell anyone how much it cost as certainly very expensive! But such good quality which costs!!

I’ve used it a few times now and it consistently delivers beautifully shaped loaves. I typically bake with 500g flour and the size is spot on. The crust comes out perfectly crunchy and the inside is soft and airy. The tin liner is a game changer! I prove my dough directly in the liner and transfer it into the dish before baking. No more awkward flipping and the loaf comes out fine, no sticking on the dish. Also, the customer service was on point. I had a query after purchasing it and it was resolved in no time. It will change your bread baking forever. Would totally buy again!

Almost foolproof. The product is solidly made and the instruction booklet is concise and unambiguous, definitely a confidence-builder for my first foray ever in making bread. The resulting loaf was perfect and gave me confidence to try sourdough, which went as well as the first loaf. I've read reviews where people achieved less than perfect results and then admitted that they didn't use a scale for the ingredients but, against the booklet's explicit recommendation, used a measuring cup. That's akin to giving a poor review to your holiday in Aruba because you failed to bring a hat, sunglasses, and suncream. **About the silicone liner** There are two purchase options - one with the silicone liner and one without. The casserole alone is significantly cheaper and you might wonder whether you should save some "dough" (pun intended) by foregoing the liner. I have never tried not using the liner because my results were perfect both times with it in place. The end-to-end process for making bread still takes time and I wouldn't have wanted to mar the meal occasions where I served the bread by having it come out not quite right. The way I eventually thought about it is the way I view the price of medicines: if you go by the cost of production, you'll be indignant that the buyer is paying so much. However, if you consider the research, design, and trials that went into it, you might view its value differently.

I have to say, this makes good bread with minimal fuss. Basically it uses the wet dough method, but makes it even easier by using a silicon liner, and the dutch oven with the porous liner does make good crusty bread. The downside of the wet dough method is of course the proofing time, typically 18 hours, that’s a pretty inconvenient time if you go into work, when do you make the dough so it doesn’t over/under proof? Peri sally I make this dough at 11pm and bake at around 7pm, sometimes resulting in the dough being over-proofed. For what it is, it’s very expensive, a similar Chinese made iron/ceramic oven like this, would typically be £50, so is the liner worth over another £100? I can’t fault the results which would have given it 5 stars, but for value, it’s overpriced. If you own a reasonably sized casserole dish, you could follow the same recipe and use the £20 Lekue bread mould and put it inside, I can’t imagine the result would be dissimilar.

I've been baking bread for twenty eight years and wanted something different to the regular bread tin. This Dutch oven is fantastic for making artisan bread with a consistent texture throughout the loaf with no chance of burning the crust. I agree it's a bit pricey, but it will last for as many years as I decide to keep baking. Arrived well packaged with a user manual and recipe inside. If you're new to making bread, then I suggest making a regular dough, letting it rise twice for an hour each time (kneading in between rises) rather than waiting for it to raise 12 - 18 hours, as this would certainly have made me regret buying it and would have returned it if I weren't able to use it immediately. Photos of the first loaf with this casserole! This is my go to bread recipe with butter and Guinness as the water substitute. The handle positions are a clever design as the casserole weighs 5kg and they allow for easier handling as it retains more heat than standard bake ware. In all, very happy with purchase.

This pan is amazing! Complete success with both white bread and sourdough bread. But the easy new way of making the bread is what is so great. Worth the investment, It will pay for itself quickly.

We've tried so many different methods of baking artisan bread loaves I can hardly count them: round ceramic cloches, long narrow ones, Dutch ovens, steam injection, .... you name it. Most of the time, we followed the now very popular no-knead approach championed by Mark Bittman and Jim Lahey. But we still hadn't found a simple reliable method for producing great loaf we were looking for, with crispy crust and fluffy, open-holed crumb. Then along came LoafNest, and our long search came to an end. An added bonus is that we no longer even need to use our KitchenAid stand mixer to combine the ingredients. The LoafNest method requires nothing more than hand mixing. It takes longer to get the rise you need -- about 12 hours -- but the added time is a small price to pay for all the work you save. And the results are spectacular. Now this is an expensive product, so you really have to be serious about your bread to want to invest in one. There are other cloches out there -- some imported from France -- that cost considerably less. But they are typically ceramic, and hence more fragile than this enameled cast-iron product. This will surely last a lifetime, like my 60 year old LeCreuset skillet. The LoafNest kit includes more than just the 2-piece cast-iron casserole. There is also a custom silicone liner that the dough is placed in, and which itself is what sits in the bottom of the LoafNest. Whereas the cast-iron casserole is made in China, the liner is made in France. And perhaps that explains why the cost of replacing the liner is more than half that of the entire kit! (Wekigai, the manufacturer, claims that the liner "is designed to last for at least 1000 uses and with proper care will last 2000-3000 uses.") But here's the thing: you don't need to use the liner at all! On the very first loaf we baked, in our haste and excitement, we forgot to use the liner. (Otherwise, we followed the LoafNest instructions precisely.) And the result was a perfect loaf, with crispy crust, lovely crumb, and oven spring, as evidenced in the accompanying photographs. And the bread came out of the casserole without any sticking at all. Well, we figured we'd pay the price when clean-up time arrived, since the liner is touted as keeping anything from sticking to the casserole. But there was no price to pay: the clean-up was simple and easy -- nothing stuck. Only time will tell whether we can continue to do without the liner. We'll report back later. But with or without the liner, we have to admit that this thing really works, and produces a beautiful loaf of bread. It's far from the least expensive way to go, but if you haven't had success by any other means, it's probably the best choice out there. --------------------------------------------------------------------- UPDATE, a year and a half later: The LoafNest continues to make beautiful bread, and we have given up completely on the silicone liner. It's simply not needed. The baked loaf comes out of the Nest easily, and no dough sticks to the interior. None. So I wonder whether Wekigai might consider offering the liner as an optional accessory, which would give those who feel they do not need it a less expensive alternative. One final word about Wekigai, the small family-run company that makes the LoafNest. I had some questions about mine and contacted the company about them. My questions were addressed promptly, courteously, and appropriately. It's great to know that there are dedicated people who are serious about cooking and cookware standing behind the products they sell. We bake virtually all our own bread now, and can't imagine what we'd do without our LoafNest.

Je doutais depuis longtemps, car il n'y a pas beaucoup d'informations sur Internet, je ne savais pas si LoafNest serait adapté à la cuisson du pain au levain Levito Madré. Le résultat a dépassé mes attentes! Je recommande.

Inconvenientes en el suministro resueltos sin problema: no entregaron el primer pedido a precio Flash, pero sí devolvieron el pago; tuve que volver a comprar a precio habitual y llegó sin forro SaSa, pero con excelente servicio de Wekigai me lo remitieron por separado. Destaca su cortesía, eficiencia y suma profesionalidad. Cómo panarra de muchos años aprecio la comodidad de uso del LoafNest. Es robusto al ser de hierro, bien terminado dentro y fuera, tiene un tamaño óptimo y goza de forro separado de SaSa de Francia, lo que permite transferir la masa fácilmente del bol/ banneton. Generalmente trabajo con mi método tradicional de sourdough, no cuesta nada adaptar al uso del LoafNest en lugar de horneado libre sobre placa de horno desde el banneton, o dentro de otra cacerola con tapa de barro. El forro de SaSa es mucho más fácil que la manipulación de papel siliconado o Silpat normal. Ojo: el forro de SaSa no funcionaría como banneton para la fase de fermentación, es demasiado flexible. Útil accesorio para simplificar el proceso, sobre todo para hacer un solo pan, el precio es elevado. Servicio cliente de fabricante inmejorable.

Ottima pentola..cuoce bene..piccola pecca i manici son un po' difficili da gestire quando e ' appena uscita dal forno