It is nice to know that there are still somebody unaffected by the
bread snobbery that abounds in most baking related newgroup.
Wonder bread with its very fine cakelike texture is difficult to
attain in home environment due to technical constraints with the
formulations , unique equipment and processing method.
But if you only want to get a softer and thin soft crust in your
breadusing a recipe that contains a fair amount of sugar and fat in
combination with minor amounts of milk solids ( in normal white
bread)will promote such thin crust formation. As long as its baked at
lower temperature say in the vicinity of 380-400 deg F.in a normal oven
you'll be assured of desirable result.
Btw, do not forget to proof the dough in humid conditions as that is
another contributing factor for desirable crust formation. If the dough
surface dries in air( low humidity), it will led to thicker crust.
You don't need much steam like crusty breads, as long as the bread is
properly proofed with moist crust ; that surface moisture during
baking will produce a very mild steam blanket that promotes oven
spring and softens the crust.You are likely to get a softer crust with
gas oven than with electic one, as the combustions of fuel will produce
carbon dioxide and water which improves the moisture content of the
oven atmosphere.

Iraxl Enb wrote:
> I have been baking bread for some time now, and am
> pretty confortable experimenting with different
> addtions/modifications to basic recipies.
>
> One thing that I am unable to acheive is bread with a
> skin-like crust like that on Wonderbread. Food-snobbery
> aside, my wife likes those, and I like a challenge.
>
> My theory is that I have a plain old gas oven, and that
> it is not going to be possible to achieve that kind of
> a bread without an electric convection oven with steam
> injection and a controlled humidity proofing box (maybe
> this will get me approved for a new oven :-))
>
> Any ideas on now I can get that kind of a light fluffy
> mealy flavourless non-nutritional bread at home?
>
> Irax.
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