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Posted by Jason Horn, May 21, 2008

My plan was to make cheese bread with lots of parmesan and some aged gouda I bought yesterday. I also decided to make an extra loaf, because I love cheese bread. I lowered the oven rack to make room for the extra baking sheet, which was a big mistake. The bread was too close to the heating element at the bottom of the oven, and the bottom burned to a crisp. What a waste of cheese. I cut off the burnt part and it tastes all right, but the fact remains that today I have failed utterly as a baker. I'm ashamed. Embarrassing photo below. I'll be back next Wednesday with some non-burnt bread.

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Please leave me some pity in the comments.

Comments

As Homer Simpson would say, "Dough!" Oh well, cutting the burnt parts off should mitigate the disaster.

Posted by: Kim | May 21, 2008 at 09:51 AM

I snuck a piece off your desk and never would have known the hell it'd been through.

Posted by: jen | May 21, 2008 at 02:39 PM

I've been there...your just trying to make a tasty treat when something like this happens.

Posted by: Bonnie Lewis-Tschannen | June 03, 2008 at 09:38 PM

I think baking disasters happen to us all. You're brave though, I would have hidden mine! ;)

Posted by: Dianne | June 08, 2008 at 11:08 AM

Yikes! I guess you can't quite 'scrap' off all that charred layer.

I find adding cheese to baked recipes often results in burned tops on the first try (I never learn.)

Posted by: Fiber Gourmet Pasta | November 29, 2008 at 11:28 PM
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