You know those lovely French baguettes that cry out for lashings of butter and a glass of red? Well if you have the slightest leaning towards bread baking at all, the steam oven is your new best friend. make the dough as usual or as the recipe directs. Shape into the loaf/rolls of choice and then steam for up to 10 minutes before putting the loaves into a hot oven. Not only will you speed up the cooking time, you will duplicate the crunchy crust of your fave baguettes! Try rising your bread dough in the steam oven for no longer than 5 minutes…this will actually begin the cooking process, but you will end up with a lovely crusty result on the loaf.
Of course, if you are really clever, you will have vacumn sealed your own jams or lemon butter in the steam oven as well and be able to serve them with your stunning fresh bread.
Good luck and happy bread making!