We make many sacrifices to provide you with fresh baked bread, 5 days a week. One of the biggest sacrifices is enduring the incredible heat in the bakery, especially when we are baking our hard crusted bread. Most of the items are baked at about 320 degrees. That's not too terrible to tolerate, even though the oven is about ten feet wide, ten feet deep and eight feet high.
But even the toughest of us start to feel the heat when it's time to bake the hard crusted breads. The oven temperature goes up to over 400 degrees and for about 2 hours we drink lots of water, sweat, drink some more water and sweat some more until the bread is done.
This temporary discomfort results in some fantastic bread that is crunchy on the outside and light and airy on the inside. If you didn't make it in to pick up a Baguette today, we hope you'll visit us for some next Friday. Our Baguettes make a fantastic choice for a sandwich, french toast and it also makes a great bread to soak up salad dressing on a fresh summer salad.
We hope you'll try some soon. Your friends at the Great Harvest in Columbia.
