Bread-Bakers v105.n018.11

Hello everyone,

I've not experimented with steam myself as yet and reading the debate 
recently I'm not sure whether I will.  A friend here in France has just had 
a new kitchen installed, and a new electric Neff oven as part of 
that.  This oven seems to have two very neat features which may be of 
interest to us bakers - one is a proofing cycle, the other a special bread 
baking setting. I've not had a chance to look at the oven in detail, but 
basically for the proofing cycle you just pour a glass of water on the 
floor of the oven (it's specially shaped) and turn it on, it heats to about 
37 celsius and produces 100% humidity - this might be useful for Iris 
Goldman.  The door of the oven seems to be all glass on the inside and 
sealing quite well (this oven also has a self clean cycle based on 
water/steam).

Neff does have a website, but I've only found only one in German at 
http://www.neff.de - I'm sure they'd be able to let you know where you can 
buy their appliances, even if you write to them in English.

Happy baking everyone,
Andreas