Rice baskets

Rice basket at Baktotaal

As many know, the dough for certain products needs to rise before it's baked. Especially with bread, this is essential. A professional bakery has a rice machine for this, a large device where trays with kneaded bread dough are inserted. Under ideal conditions regarding temperature and humidity, the dough can then rise. But if you occasionally bake bread yourself, you let the dough rise "manually." This is preferably done in a warm place, for example near the radiator of the central heating. Never use a heat source like an oven or microwave. A rice basket is an ideal tool for baking bread. In a rice basket, the dough can rise peacefully before going into the oven. It also retains the proper shape.

Advantages of rice baskets

A rice basket is indispensable in the kitchen of an enthusiastic home baker. As mentioned earlier, you use a rice basket to let dough rise. The rice basket ensures that your dough receives enough support and can rise beautifully. It also prevents your dough from cooling down. With a wicker rice basket, you can also monitor the progress of your dough well. You can keep track of how much your dough has risen via the lines. A wicker rice basket provides optimal air circulation around the dough. Additionally, the rice basket also absorbs some moisture so that the outside of the dough becomes slightly drier. This makes it easy to score the dough before it goes into the oven.

How to use a rice basket?

It's useful to knead the dough into the correct shape before letting it rise. Some recipes require the dough to be briefly kneaded again after rising. If this isn't necessary, you can place the dough directly from the rice basket into the oven. It's important to let the dough rise properly and to adhere to the time required for this. If you don't, your bread will be much less fluffy than intended. During rising, air bubbles form in the dough, giving it its lightness. You can cover the rice basket with a damp (tea) towel to retain the heat well. Unexpected cooling can cause the dough to collapse again, and then it won't rise again.

Various types and sizes

Baktotaal offers a wide range of rice baskets. In the assortment, you'll find many wicker rice baskets as well as plastic baskets. We also have separate dough cloths and linen cloths with elastic. These linen cloths are from the BrandNewCake brand. All rice baskets come in different shapes and sizes, such as round, square, triangular, and oval. The linen cloths are also available in multiple sizes. Take a look at our assortment!

Buy easily online at Baktotaal

You can now buy a rice basket directly from the Baktotaal webshop. They're not only handy for letting bread dough rise. You can also use them during breakfast or lunch as bread baskets to serve your freshly baked bread in.

Looking for more baking tools? Baktotaal offers a large and diverse range, from thermometers and timers to scales. You can easily add your favorite product to your shopping cart and then pay securely.