I suppose, I should start off by saying that this is not a sponsored post, or a review post or even a recommendation post; it’s just going to sound like a lot of the three! It happens to be a post of happy coincidence, or a blissful accident or the perfect opportunity.
The last few months I’ve put the brakes on the blog a bit to catch up with my normal life. Posting once a week has been great and it allows me to catch up with reading other blogs, trying recipes out and basically doing other things. I didn’t realise how much time the blog was taking from my regular life.
This extra time has allowed me to concentrate on some of my own projects, my children’s projects and my husband’s doings. Going off on a tangent here for a bit, I wanted to share this project that Laith had to make for his geometry module. It’s a model showing general geometry and math terms. The sci-fi nerds that we are, we made the Star Destroyer from Star Wars. Turned out really well, and I’m not afraid to say that I did a lot of the work. I am the biggest nerd around and it doesn’t help that I am also married to one.
So, anyway, back to the regularly scheduled post; my husband for the last 9 months or so, has been working for a high end appliance company selling the most gorgeous fridges and ranges you have ever seen. Yes, I’m talking about the ones that cost tens of thousands. He gave up his life in horrible retail management and is having a ball dealing with nice rich people, designers and builders. He is home for dinner every night and every other weekend; he gets three days off. I love his job too. More than him being home for dinner, I love the appliances at his store and the connections to said appliance representatives. It really is very helpful when you know people, especially if you have a food blog 🙂
One such opportunity arose for me a few weeks ago when I contacted the rep at the Wolf appliance showroom asking to know more about the use of their ovens and ranges (acting like I could ever afford their $12,000 ranges) She invited me to their huge showroom to cook and learn on the Wolf appliances themselves. I was a kid in a candy store.
She had brought some salmon and potatoes for us to cook in the new Wolf Steam Convection Oven. We also baked a gorgeous focaccia and some apple tarts. All of these were cooked effortlessly in the amazing steam oven. And wow, did they come out perfectly cooked.
I had such a wonderful time learning and cooking, and of course eating. Karen at Roth Distributing was such a gracious hostess and I am so grateful to her for taking the time to teach me.
Soon after my afternoon at the Wolf showroom, I had a lot of information in my head swimming around with no release. It’s not like I have that calibre appliances readily available in my home! I wanted to practise my newly learned knowledge. So, I emailed one of my hubby’s coworkers who deals with events and promotions.
I offered to make lunch for my husband and his coworkers using their model kitchens. Since I had learnt about the Wolf appliances, that’s the kitchen I picked to work in, but ended up using a wonderful Jenn Air double oven too.
To make a long story short, I am having a blast! I am allowed to use the appliances to cook for my blog, and everyone at Speciality Appliance, Inc, is just absolutely supportive and wonderful. So here is one plug, if you are in Colorado and need appliances, please go to Specialty Appliance. They have the best customer service and the best sales reps. At the Greenwood Village, please ask for my husband; Trace and at the Boulder or Fort Collins locations, just tell them I sent you.
So, what does any of that have to do with this Pan Cubano? Well, when I cooked lunch for SA couple of weeks ago, I wanted to try out the steam oven again. Everyone knows steam is great for bread. I wasn’t looking to make a Pan Cubano or anything special, but I looked for an easy bread recipe that I could tweak for the steam oven. As it happens this bread, from an old cookbook I have, didn’t need any tweaking. I made up the dough the night before and let it proof in the fridge overnight. The next morning before I headed out to the store, I cut the dough in half, shaped it and laid it on the baking sheet. By the time I got to the store (about 40 minutes) the dough was nicely risen.
I placed the loaves on the steam oven baking sheet lined with parchment, popped it into the cold oven, checked the water dispenser was full for the steam, turned on the oven and put the oven on the automatic preset for bread. It couldn’t be simpler. The oven senses the weight of the dough and automatically sets the timer. This took 50 minutes and was perfectly baked with the most perfect paper thin crust, which is characteristic of a Cubano.
Pan Cubano is the bread used for the famous Cuban sandwiches and they are shaped differently, but I was trying to improvise for the size of the oven and frankly, was in hurry to get to the store to start cooking. The cook book actually suggested round loaves or boules, but once again I wasn’t thinking about the significance of the Cubano, just that I needed a good recipe. It was an excellent loaf of bread and made such excellent toast. The guys loved it and the lunch, I will post the other dishes in the coming weeks.
Serves: 2
Calories: 2076
Fat: 24g
- 5 to 6 cups/725g bread or all purpose flour
- 2 packages/4½ teaspoons instant yeast
- 1 tablespoon salt
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 2 cups/470ml hot water
- sesame or poppy seeds, optional
- Place 4 cups of the flour into a mixer bowl and add the yeast, salt and sugar.
- Using the dough hook, mix the flour well.
- Add the water and mix until a sticky dough is formed.
- Mix for 3 minutes.
- Slowly, start working in the rest of the flour, ½ cup at a time until the dough takes shape and is no longer sticky.
- You can knead the dough by hand or with the dough hook.
- Knead for about 8 minutes until it is smooth and elastic.
- Place the dough in a greased bowl and keep in a warm place until doubled in size.
- It will take about 15-20 minutes.
- Punch down the dough and and turn it on the counter.
- Cut the dough in half.
- Shape each into a round or loaf shape.
- Slash the top of the bread with a knife.
- Brush the top with water and sprinkle seeds if using.
- Place the loves on a baking sheet and place in the middle rack of a COLD oven.
- Place a large pan of hot water on the rack below, and heat the oven to 400F/200C.
- Bake for about 50 minutes or until the loaves are deep golden brown.
- Thump the bottom crusts to test for doneness.
- If they sound hollow and hard, they are baked.
- Turn out the loaves on racks and allow to cool before slicing with a serrated knife.
- Since there is no fat, the bread is really only good for a day or two.
- It makes excellent toast when it's a couple days old and freezes well too.
Also, if you do happen to have the Wolf Convection Steam Oven, just place the loaves on to some parchment paper and then on the sheet pan that comes with the oven and place in the cold oven. Locate the Wolf Gourmet preset buttons and find the A11 mode for bread. Turn it on and let the oven do the rest.
So, if anyone is interested in the Wolf Convection Steam Oven, I will post some details below and the links. Like I said this is not a sponsored post or even a recommendation. I liked the oven and if I had surplus money, I would buy it. If you bake a lot of bread, it can be really useful and it does have a lot of other preset options that can give you fool proof cooking results. And it’s very easy to use.
What about y’all? What’s your choice for kitchen appliances? Gas, electric, induction? Do kitchen appliances even matter to you? And do you salivate at the words Thermador, Wolf, Viking, Aga, SubZero, like I do or maybe you already own one? If you do, do you like it?
Hope your week has started off in a spectacular manner! I’m very excited today since I finally get to meet and eat with Abbe from the blog This IS How I Cook! I cannot wait.
Wolf Convection Steam Oven CSO24 MSRP $3850
Specialty Appliance, Inc for great appliances and great customer service in Colorado.
Those pans looks absolutely perfect… and that focaccia is gorgeous! recipe soon? Glad to hear some space is doing you well 🙂 Laith’s destroyer looks.. awesome. you rock!
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Thanks Francesca! I have a focaccia on the blog, not this one but similar.
Wow! I’ve never steamed bread. So lucky you went to go and play with the appliances. This looks fabulous. I’ve never had this type of bread before.
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Haha, getting all excited about ovens and refrigerators… it’s something that people who don’t like to cook would just never understand. My colleagues used to love talking about their new computer and all I could think was “imagine the type of stove you could buy for that!”.
Gorgeous looking bread Nazneen – really nice interior!
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Wow, Nazneen you are one lucky girl to be able to use all these wonderful appliances!
The bread looks gorgeous, perfectly browned and VERY tempting 🙂
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Thanks Daniela! It’s been a lot of fun playing around with fancy toys 🙂
Dear Nazneen, I do not think that there is anything that my previous commentators have not mentioned yet – that serves me right for coming here for a visit so very late! Love the arts project form your sonm I saw the pictures on FB and I really admire all that creativity! The bread recipe sounds delightful, of course, and the cooking ranges, well, wouldn´t we all be more than happy to own them?! You should see the oven I use, on second thought, better not…
Love and hugs, hope you are taking very good care of yourself!!!
Andrea
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A late visit is better than no visit 🙂 I enjoy hearing from you but know how busy life can get, especially with children and running a home. You can visit whenever you want.
Oh I’d have a ball in there too! I’m such a bread lover, this looks great Nazneen 🙂
Krissie x – http://pearlsofstyle.blogspot.com.au
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Thanks Krissie! I have a weakness for bread too 🙁 It’s my downfall.
Nazneen, these Cuban loaves look perfectly golden and are tempting us to try them out at home for the weekend….so good with golden butter melting in top….bliss in every bite….there is nothing as soothing as making your own bread at home and when the results are such excellent…it is a great drive for never buying a loaf from outside,thanks so much for sharing 🙂
Thank you!! Yes, home-made bread is excellent but I’m afraid I can’t stop eating it if I make it!
Assalaamu alaikum sister Nazneen. I just made this today and I can’t tell you how much we enjoyed it. Thank you so much: )
wasalam Anisha, thank you so much for letting me know and I’m so glad it turned out well for you.
This bread looks wonderful. How fab that you get to use the appliances at your husbands work. I loved my Aga when I had one and would love to have one again. I have an induction hob which is great but I’d love a really huge range cooker. GG
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I saw the Agas at his work and I am fascinated by them! Unfortunately, they are not connected and live so I can’t have a go but I really want to! How do you like your induction? I’m going to play on one this weekend and I am curious to see how it cooks vs a gas.
Rien de plus appétissant que le pain chaus qui sort du four ! une bonne recette 🙂 bon week end
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Oui, je suis d’accord!! Merci beaucoup, Josephine!
How wonderful for your hubs to have a job that he LOVES at last. 🙂 And what a fun and inspiring experience for you. 🙂 This bread looks fantastic. 🙂
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Your husband sure has a fun job…too bad you don’t get to get some “free” samples…
The bread looks fabulous Nazneen…I never heard of placing the loaf in a COLD oven…I need to try this method. Love the crumb of this bread…yum!
Thanks for this fun post…hope you are having an enjoyable week 😀
Believe me Juliana, I’ve been pushing for the free samples!!! But all I get is a notepad or pen 🙁
I’m sorry I’m late, but I couldn’t miss your post! no way! A lot of informations Nazneen…. when I moved in Montreal from Italy I had a big shock realizing that in my apartment we didn’t have gas, but just electrical stove and oven…. I took me at least 2 weeks to understand how to manage the “cooking situation”…. I can imagine how happy you were cooking in that huge kitchen! Skipping to your bread what can I say? It’s seems perfect, especially the guts! Great job my friend, take care and keep in touch!
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I know how you feel Margherita. My mother had the same transition when we moved from London. For the first few months, she burnt everything! I don’t like electric stoves but that’s the norm here and I’m used to them now. I had a gas range for a while but it just didn’t have any power! I would like one of these though 🙂
Hi Nazeen,
How fun to get to be around and use new high end appliances. I’ve never used a steam oven and I’d like to see how it works—just curious. We did our kitchen about 6-1/2 years ago but it seems a lot less. I love the new kitchen! I went Kitchen Aid, stainless, for the double door fridge and freezer, and also for the dishwasher. And I got an induction cooktop which is the best!! It was made by a Swedish company for Kenmore. Oh, and cherry cabinets. Oh oh, I sound like the people who talk about their pets, only I’m talking about kitchen appliances. Hmm.
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Hi Mireya, how cool, you got new appliances 🙂 Glad to hear you like the induction. I’m cooking on one this weekend and I am going to see whether I like it more than a gas range. Seems to have it’s advantages. I have a KA fridge, a French door and drawer. I love it except for the water dispenser. Yes, the Kenmore inductions are made by Electrolux, and are supposed to be quite excellent. I’m glad you like the choices you made for your kitchen. Sounds like a fun kitchen!
Your hubby has a great job! What fun to be around those great appliances all day! We actually just replaced most of our kitchen appliances, and thought about one of those really amazing stoves for a few minutes. But then decided ordinary kitchen stuff is just fine. That stuff really does look nice, though, and that oven would be wonderful! Anyway, great bread. We used to live in Tampa, and the Cuban bread there was much better than most of the “French” bread available. Good stuff — thanks.
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Hi John, yes he does! I guess in the end, you think whether you REALLY need those high end appliances. Most of the time, people buy them for status reasons and to match the cost of their home! If the home is custom, you can’t very well have a dinky GE sitting in the corner! I would love to try real Cuban bread and a Cuban sandwich if I can find one without pork! They look so good! Maybe a trip to Florida one day 🙂
If I had a chance to use that model kitchen I probably wouldn’t leave until I was removed by force. It must have been so fun to work with all those state-of-the-art appliances!
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When I walked into that showroom, I never wanted to leave!! I told my husband I could live here 🙂 It was a great opportunity for sure!
As I said before this bread looks yummy. (wink) But I have to add that I love the bread in the shape you made it in. Perfect to cut for sandwiches on just eat with dollops of butter.
Now if only I could afford those ovens.
Yes, I was waiting for the “it’s yummy” comment and then the “I haven’t had Pan Cubano before” wink!! You’re not even eating bread otherwise I’d make you some. Let me know when you stop dieting 🙂
Wow your bread looks perfect! I can’t wait to try these and thanks for the tip on how to prepare without a steam oven.
Thank you, Christine! Believe me, at home I’ll be slumming with a regular oven too 🙂
Oh my gosh, I wish I had a spare few thousand to spend on that Wolf oven! It sounds amazing! I didn’t know that steam ovens existed either… but darn it, now that I’m clued in I want one! 🙂
As for your gorgeous pan cubano, I am SO impressed Nazneen! I am terrible at bread baking so it impresses me no end when others can bake perfectly risen loaves with a beautiful crumb. Love it x
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Thanks Laura! I’ve always enjoyed making bread and I love yeast. But you are so good at all the other stuff! Your imagination and creation is unsurpassed in my books. I love reading about the food you and Aaron eat!
What a wonderful adventure and great idea on your part to make this happen. I couldn’t afford those appliances even if I got a husband employee discount. They’re beautiful aren’t they? I’ve been so busy at work that once is week blogging is all I can manage also. Enjoy this beautiful Colorado Spring Day.
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I know what you mean Lea Ann! There isn’t much of a discount even for employees, not on this scale! But I’m thoroughly enjoying this chance I get to use them. I love it! Have a great day!
Oh, I’ll make this bread next weekend!! Looks really good!! I like the one of the top, which has shape of focaccia. Could you tell me approximately how long you bake? Perhaps I can use the “hollow sound” to know if it’s ready, of course.
Love this recipe!! Fresh bread during a day, and rest of week some toasts!! Sounds good 😉
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Hi Paula! Thank you for your lovely comment. The bread is baked for 50 minutes and then check to see if it sounds hollow. If not bake it a bit longer, another 5-10 minutes is all you need extra. The focaccia on top, the flat one, isn’t a recipe I have on my site but I do have a Caramelised Onion, Fig and Brie one. You can leave off the toppings to get plain bread. Yhank you for stopping by!
What an incredible adventure you got to go on, 12,000??? That is absolutely crazy – but this bread is worth even more than that 😀
Delicious delicious delicious!
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
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I know, right?! Yes, they are in excess of $12,000 for the ranges. You can get a stove top for less but still a few thousand!
I thought I’ve read it incorrectly, 12,000!!! woow :). The kitchen photographed above is very impressive I would like to cook in one of those one day … lucky you. Love the bread, the story, the adventure and above all your great project with Laith – very cute name.
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Thank you Amira! Yes, they are a bit pricey but you can slightly less expensive ones too. Laith’s project was a lot of fun.
Nazneen, we are planning to renovate our kitchen in next two years and I am collecting information on appliances and other things. Do they have a store in Vancouver?… I hope you had fun using the specialty appliances, I love seeing what you cooked and baked, especially the Cuban bread. It looks gorgeous – crusty on outside and soft and chewy on the inside.
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Hi Balvinder, unfortunately, Specialty is only in Colorado but you should be able to find something similar in Vancouver. Search for Sub Zero Wolf or Thermador and see what store pops up in your area. These kind of appliances only have like a store or two who sells them. I can’t wait to see your kitchen! Look at Dacor and Jenn Air also, my hubby really likes these two brands.
The steam oven weighs the bread and adjusts the cooking times?? Really? I’ve just got a bog standard fan oven that cooks about 10C hotter than the thermometer. I love the sound of you going into your husbands ‘office’ and doing a cooking demo – maybe this is a new opportunity for you?
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Hi Nancy! Yes, in the special gourmet presto, it’s programmed to sense the bread and set the timer! I was quite impressed 🙂 I’m hoping that it leads to more fun things!
It was so nice meeting you today Nazneen. I absolutely love your beautiful photos and your very adventurous bread baking experience. I would love to bake some bread in a $12,000.00 oven. Having bread turn out this beautifully would certainly make it worth every penny.
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Oh Karen! It was so much fun today and I’m so glad we were able to meet! We must get together again soon. If I’m ever in GWV at the store again, I’ll give you a heads up and you can pop by :)Thank you for stopping by and for your lovely comment! Looking forward to keeping in touch.
I love this bread! I have to tell you that when I first got married we lived in north Florida for two years. It was very hard to find a nice grocery, bakery or fish store down there. It was hard to even buy a good loaf of French bread. I finally discovered a little Cuban bakery and even though it was out of my way I always went there to buy bread. It was a beautiful loaf of Cuban bread! Probably not baked in a Wolf though. Had so much fun today. And everyone should know that the rhubarb/apple crumble was divine! Just like you!
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Thank you so much Abbe, for your wonderful comment and for the lovely lunch! It was so nice to meet you and I had such a wonderful time. xx
I saw Laith’s project on instagram. I’m super-impressed. I’m sure he’ll be at the top of the class after handing that in. It’s so much better than Alfie’s attempt at an Australian landmark! I love the sound of your husband’s job; it sounds like he’s landed on his feet and that the hours are great for family life. I only recently heard of Wolf ovens. I think they’ve only just started importing them here. One of the mums at Alfie’s school has recently been renovating her house and she’s a caterer so she put in a very impressive kitchen. The oven is a Wolf and she said it even has a Sabbath setting so it will come on automatically for the orthodox Jews. I was over at her house the other day and saw the oven and it is certainly impressive and I immediately decided I must have one too (and a kitchen like hers to match) but someone told me that here they cost between $30,000 and $40,000. Staggering! xx
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Haha! I know, I can’t resist taking over. I should’ve let him do it, but the perfectionist in me is just a horrible thing! It came out really well and I’m impressed that I still have a bit of artsy left in me!The Wolf ovens are very impressive as are the Thermador, Viking, Dacor…so many to choose from. They are available worldwide from what I know. But I’m sure there is a heftier price tag on them, maybe more than here. I hope you get yours 🙂
The cuban bread looks fantastic…. and what a great project it is to do with the kids!
It should be have been a wonderful experience baking in a brand baking equipments… I am always so trilled and excited when I get to cook with new cookware… I wish I was in colorado to have a peek at the stores…
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Thanks Deepti, yes it’s a lot of fun to play around with new gadgets and equipments, especially professional ones!
First off, that Star Destroyer is fantastic, Nazneen. What a great way to teach geometry!
Glad that your DH has such a great job, one that gives him more time to spend at home with your and the family. How lucky that it also has given you access to the model kitchen. Wow! How I’d love to go “play” in one. I’d love a Wolf or Viking stove/even but they are so far out of my reality. That’s OK. Now that you’ve access, I’ll just cook and bake vicariously through you. 🙂
Thanks for a great post.
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Thank you, thank you!! I am quite happy with it 🙂 And yes, its fabulous that I have access to their kitchens!! I am having a blast. Come and be my sous chef John, we can both play with the kitchens then 🙂
Bread making can be so satisfying, and you did such a beAutiful job.
Sometimes blogging does really get in the way of life- that’s when you need to take a break, and I think there’s nobody worth taking a real for than your family. So although I’ve missed your posts, good for you!
*kisses* H
Thanks H! It’s been nice to take it easy but then I get stressed when the time to post comes along 🙂
Me too, Nazneen! I have been so busy with the blog, I have not had time to catch up with my family and simple pleasures in life. I started again to post once a week only since I also have other personal and professional matters to take care of first. I am glad that you had a great experience cooking with this kitchen equipaments. The Cuban bread looks fab! xx
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Wow! That’s really all I can say here! 😀 That incredible Star Destroyer? Wow – amazing geometry project (sure hope it earned an A!!!). Working with all those high-end appliances? Again … wow (that particular “wow” might be tinged with just a teeny bit of jealousy – lol!). And a steam oven? Wow … just wow. The bread is incredibly beautiful, and clearly tastes every bit as fabulous as it looks. Sensational, really personal and interesting post … great recipe! Thanks so much, Nazneen!
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Hahaha! Your comment made me laugh Shelley! Thank you for your sweet comment! The bread came out way better than I expected, considering it was just an experiment! That oven knows what it’s doing!
You kidding me! You are having a ball! I would be so intimidated thinking of using a model kitchen!! You are awesome, such confidence, love it.
And love the bread. I think I can bake this one. If I successfully do so, I will let you know. After making me a photographer, you might just turn me into a baker, 😀
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You are so sweet Minnie! Your comments always make me giggle. Thanks a lot dear friend xx
Wow – what a blast you must be having! I can only dream of appliances like these. I used to think I wanted a six (or eight) burner stove. When we moved here, we got a five burner stove with the house. I have now learned that, as one cook, I never really use more than four! Is that training, or do I really only need the four? My dream appliance would be a gas range with an electric oven (a steam oven woudln’t hurt, either…). Two ovens would be much more important than additional burners! Sadly, there is no gas in our neighborhood – we are all electric. But, as I have only had electric burners since I was a kid, I am quite used to it, and would probably burn anything I cooked on gas!
Ah, the bread. It looks absolutely perfect! Can;t wait to see more of what you are cooking for the staff!
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I think about that too, are 4 burners all you need? Maybe. But I would like to have room. My pots and pans take up do much room and I would like the extra space. Extra ovens would be nice too. The problem with so many home ranges, like mine now, it has one big burner. I have big pots!! It’s very frustrating. I would love gas again, but we’ll see! Dreaming big dreams here 🙂
This was a very fun update to read! That Destroyer looks terrific! My son is (no surprise) crazy about Star Wars; he would be especially impressed. And so happy for your husband and his new job! It sounds great, and what a treat to cook with those appliances, in that kitchen. My kitchen is so small, no fancy appliances but I sure would love a Wolf range! A girl can dream… : ) This bread came out amazing. The last time I made a loaf, the recipe instructed us to put a pan of hot water in there to mimic the steam. I can see how neat it’d be to have the professional equipment to make things so much better.
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Thank you Monica! I think your son and Laith would have a grand ol time together! It’s been wonderful too play with the appliances, only problem is, I’m getting spoilt now! My Whirlpool flat top at home ain’t cutting it! 🙂
Hello Nanzeen, beautiful loaves of bread. I love your idea of letting the loaves proof overnight in the refrigerator. Will have to give that a try. I prefer gas and would love more burners than I have here in Hong Kong. I have one wok burner and 2 other burners and it is never enough. In our apartment we have Meile appliances and in less than 2 years I have had problems with all of them malfunctioning, but then again they were probably made here too. LOL Have a super day. BAM
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Oh no! Miele is one of the better brands and I’m surprised it hasn’t worked well for you. They have a really nice steam oven too 🙂 Proofing the bread over night is a nice time saver and then you have fresh bread in the morning!
What a great job for your husband, and an even greater opportunity for you as a food blogger. That bread looks delicious, and the photos are enhanced by that professional kitchen background. I look forward to seeing more of your productions.
Thank you so much Hilda! I really am having fun and it’s really nice because I can write about it too!
So glad to hear of this awesome opportunity, Nazneen!
While I do not “salivate at the words Thermador, Wolf, Viking, Aga, SubZero”, I do love hearing about different appliances and how they contribute to the preparation of a dish – like this bread! The texture of this bread looks pretty amazing – I wish I was in the Colorado area so I could come grab a slice to taste, the next time you get to cook in the Wolf appliance showroom 🙂
Great to know that you have been spending your time well away from the blog. It’s refreshing to take a little break once in while. Your projects sound so exciting and the Star Destroyer looks awesome. And I love the Cuban bread too.
I have a thing for kitchen appliances and gadgets. And tableware, serveware, flatware…basically anything related to the kitchen and food. I’ve been eyeing the steam ovens for a while but we have moved thrice in the last couple of years and still don’t feel settled. So maybe when I find the ideal house with the perfect kitchen for me. Thank you for the feedback Nazneen..this is certainly helpful.
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Thanks Sonali! Yes, if you’re going to buy a steam oven, the best ones are built in. You’ll have to stay put in one place!
I can’t decide which one looks better, Nazneen. The star destroyer or the bread?
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Oh David, the pilot in you is going to pick the Star Destroyer! Now, what’s the stronger pull, the chef in you or the pilot? 🙂
Lovely bread Nazneen! And your newfound adventures sound so fun!
By the way, I’ve actually never heard of a steam oven! I feel like I have zero knowledge of kitchen appliances hahah
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Don’t worry Henna, I had no clue either until hubby started working there! I’m pretty well up to date on most cooking things but this one escaped me too!
Wonderful preparation.. awesome!!
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