"Dusty Bleher" > wrote in
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> "Gonorio Dineri" > wrote in message
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>> The bakers I've spent time with in France use a long strip of canvas
>> dusted with flour to keep boules from getting flat. The baker will
>> lay a
> Hello Gonoria! Thanks for your most interesting first hand
> description. But methinks that you've simplified a bit too much. I
> don't think that canvas, which is cotton based, can survive your
> typical bread oven temps...
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> I've probably just misunderstood. Could you please elucidate?
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> Later all,
> Dusty
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It IS canvas, but it is probably not made of cotton. It actually has quite
a coarse weave, rather like a cross between burlap and canvas.

And, maybe its not really a couche, but has some other name. The kind of
couche I've seen is more like an ambulance stretcher for holding loaves to
be baked. Commercial bakers put a bunch of loaves on it, slam the whole
thing in the oven, then lower a lever and slide the couche back out,
leaving the loaves in place in the oven.