About 30 minutes before your bread is finished proofing, put a lid on your Dutch oven and put it in the oven to preheat. Set the oven to whatever temperature you need.

The Le Creuset Bread Oven makes baking crispy, crusty bread easier than ever. We tested it out with three loaves of no-knead bread and 12 scones. Read our review here.

But Vatinet, author of A Passion for Bread, felt the time was right to acquire what has been dubbed the Rolls Royce of commercial bread-baking ovens.