Lakeland Ceramic Bread Baker

After all the negative reviews thought i should give some advice. Do with the bread maker exactly what it says on instructions. Massive help is to use a banneton (linen lined whicker basket with22cm diameter) it should hold 1kg of dough. liberaly flour it put dough in amd cover with damp t towel. Once proven tip into bread maker thats been wellfloured. No oil. Oil can go on bread once its out of bread maker. Its a brilliant product.

I purchased one of these having read all the reviews first and have brilliant results. I also found sprinkling on semolina in the bottom of the cold ceramic bread maker first, then popping the prooved dough on top and placing in a cold oven. Turn oven onto 200 fan for 20 mins then 180 for 20 mins. take out of oven and leave to cool. Once cold it will turn out easily - just made a whole grain [large] loaf and it was delicious! DO NOT put oil or flour in it and I do not prove in it either; and do not try and remove from the crock before it is cool/cold!

I too initially had problems with dough sticking in the baker but now have perfected a process for consistent success when I bake sourdough loaves. Sprinkle a thin layer of semolina in the base and then place the dough, even sticky dough into the baker. Cut a strip, or two strips if necessary, of baking parchment about 75mm wide and place around the inside of the baker and against the dough. It helps to cut a few slits so that the parchment follows the curve of the dish. Allow the dough to rise and then bake as normal. After baking allow everything to go cold and then remove. Perfect!

Used the ceramic bread baker quite a few times now seem to work fine for me, one idea I tried was lining it with that baco foil non stick tin foil, and I oiled it as well, then put my dough on the CBB to prove, when risen put it it into a preheated oven as normal and and bing bang bosh, it turns into good nosh. I am using the Panasonic I have just bought from Lakeland to do the dough, I am going to do a review on that next, as its a brilliant machine.

This review is for an older version of this product

I received my ceramic bread baker last week and chanced on all the negative reports about it. I must say I was somewhat concerned & tossed up whether or not to bother even trying to bake the bread on it. I decided that I must at least try & so floured the baker, shaped the dough & put it to rise on the baker and when ready put it into a cold oven set at Fan 200° for 20mins and then reduced it to 180° for a further 20mins. At the end of the cooking time I put the loaf to cool on a wire. The loaf was perfect & so was the second one made in the same way yesterday.