Making proving baskets

Swearing to myself never to let dough stick to my cloth and ruin a loafI set out to make myself some wooden proving baskets.

A local "Panduro" hobby store had everything I needed. A wooden basket and 50 cm of linnen cloth. A few moments later, a couple of proving baskets were reality.

I floured these generously with rye flour, and tested them out on a barley bread from Dan Lepard's book "The handmade loaf". Progress report will follow :-)

Click the image for a full size version. On the top image you can see it on top of my very personal and hand crafted bread peel that I had a blast making a few weeks back.