Got brotforms?
These coiled cane proofing baskets turn ordinary loaves into affairs of crusty gorgeousness. You can read more about their use and care here.
I’ve discovered that Brotform.com is a wonderful source for brotforms. Not only do their prices beat all others I’ve found by quite a bit, but my order arrived in record time and I did not feel gouged on the shipping charges. They offer a variety of sizes in round, oval, and oblong shapes.
All of this is, of course, meant to console and inform you in case you are not the lucky winner of the two brotforms — 9″ round and 8.5″ oval — that the very nice people at Brotform.com will send to a randomly-drawn commenter on this post, provided said commenter has a US shipping address.
So go on and comment it up before 11:59 PM PST on Thursday, July 9. Please make it interesting (but hey, no pressure!).
Hopping up and down and squeaking in my best annoying-seven-year-old voice: “Oooo! Oooo! Pick me! Pick me! Ooo! Ooo!”
Yes please, I’d love to win this!
If I can have loves that looks as gorgeious as that by baking in a Brotfom I would be a very happy baker!
I like the results these brotforms yield with bread dough. I enjoy your bread posts.
Count me in! I’ve always wanted one of these.
I’m getting rather sick of using my poorly adapted towel couche and was looking into buying a couple brotforms.
As I child I would thumb through my mother’s german cookbooks drooling over the artisan breads and rolls. I had no idea how those loaves had gotten such beautiful designs on them. Since then I’d come to learn that the brotform has been “decorating” loaves to the delight of many a baker. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if I were one of them?
Thank you for this great contest! Good luck, everyone!
🙁 you need a US shipping address to be in for these? That’s such a pity, cause I’m in Ireland…
I love the fact, though, that Brotforms have retained their German name – albeit with the English s ending, as opposed to Brotformen.
So love to Wild Yeast from a German bread-obsessed baking girl in Ireland 🙂
Your brotform bread is beautiful. Anyone who be nuts not to want a few of them. 🙂
Cool giveaway.
Susie
You form, I form we all want a brotform!
Ta!
Every time I make bread, at the end it still doesnt look good as yours. Maybe what im missing is that brotform. I really hope I will get one.
Thanks Susan and brotform!
OOH, those are neat! Might be just the thing to get me doing more baking.
I’ve had brotforms on my wish list for a while now. I don’t know what’s stopping me!
Please count me in! I’d love to win a brotform!
I’ve never heard or seen of brotforms, but now that I have, I’m sold.
gosh,, say something interesting about brotforms. I was lost a man to a brotform? just kidding. My husband does think I have an unhealthy stalker complex for them because I love to fondle them when we see them at the store.
I’d love one of these!!!
This is the first time I’m hearing the term “brotform” but I have always adored what they do the loaf. I’d love to have one of my own!
Oh, I am in. I would post the most recent poem I have about food, but it’s about tomatoes and zucchini, not bread, and unfinished anyway. But allow me to point out that prettier bread would make writing poetry more likely!
i love those things. a community i used to bake for had a big pile of ’em, but that was years back and i haven’t used one since.
!! I’ve always looked longingly at the ones in the King Arthur Catalogue. I’d be so excited to get brotforms (AND it’s a funny word to say.)
Make it interesting? No pressure? You are kidding me, right? I am already hyperventilating and all words escaped from my mind…. (sigh)
Yes, it is very interesting how I had this dream last night about my neighbor wearing a brotform as a hat while mowing hiw lawh. Little did I know that this brotform giveaway was just waiting for me….
(ok, that’s the best I could do, but I just woke up and coffee has not kicked yet)
🙂
I’d love one, but I’d have to hide my bread on the top of the fridge – they look like cushy dough-filled cat baskets for my insane kitten.
Any home baked bread is wonderful, but the Brotform makes the bread even look more wonderful.
Not that I need more baking things, but I think I’d use brotforms enough that they wouldn’t get relegated to the linen closet like so much of my baking equipment 🙂 I’ve looked through their website, and just haven’t gotten around to getting any.
i have been wanting one of these forever!
Poor student here…. so pick me pick me….
This is already on my wish list – I would love to make beautiful bread with it! 🙂
What a tremendous gesture on your part to make this available. As my students say: “You da’ best!!”.
Thanks.
Rich
I have this old sunset bread making book that has recipes for breads baked in bowls. This looks like such a fun way to make bread!
I’ve always wanted some of these!
These are beautiful! Elegant and rustic at the same time…I’ve always wanted to proof bread in something other than an old colander! Thanks for another chance at a giveaway.
Those are so cool, and I love the texture they give the bread! But where in the heck did that name come from??
That looks amazing. Maybe a brotform will make me feel like a better person. 😉
This makes the most gorgeous loaves of bread. I’m just a beginning bread maker but I’d love to win one of these!
What beautiful breads!! I’d never heard of a brotform before – but you can bet I’m gonna get one now!
Teaching an advanced bread course in November and would love to showcase your web site…and hopefully the brotforms I win. Susan, you continue to be my inspiration!
Being the maniac I am, I’ve often considered making a brotform…if I am chosen, it would save me from that insanity! :^)
You mean I wouldn’t have to somehow cajole & bribe my potter friend to make me one of these??? Ooh, it would be so great to win this!
I’ve been coveting one of these for a year, now. I could so use this brotform!
I’m Jonesing for one of these! Pick me! Pick me!
I’ve never used a brotform before, but I’d LOVE to give it a try!
That is a nice new resource, their prices are indeed better than most places I’ve seen bannetons for sale. Thanks!
I would really like to be the lucky winner of these great looking brotforms. I can put them to good use making my sourdough breads.
Thanks for considering my entry,
Howard
Another fun giveaway! Wheee!
While I’m here I will take a moment to thank you again for your instruction and inspiration. My family is the happy recipient of my learning. The pictures are so helpful!
Thank you.
I love to make bread and would love to win these drool worthy brotforms! Thanks!
Oh, man. I’d never seen brotforms before, but now I totally want one.
/me rigs the random number generator
Wow! I love the freeform of these! What a great gift for my father, the breadmaker.
whoa nelly do those loaves look nice! if only i had a brotform so that I could make nice looking loaves too…. 🙂
I understand that when using brotforms, your bread will rise an additional 25-30% Hey, you want more than sheer beauty? Thank you, Susan, for another gracious post – You da’ gal!
If I had brotforms, that would be one less thing that I could blame my baking failures on!
I just got my starter going again after a long wait (I’ve been making a lot of no-knead bread due to time constraints), and would love to kick off the summer baking season with a couple of brotform-shaped loaves. I absolutely adore the way the proofed loaves look – rustic but beautiful.
Oooh! These are cool! Those make some gorgeous loaves; I’d love one!
I’m still trying to use a bowl lined with floured pastry cloth as an improved brotform, but I suspect my results will never be as good as the real thing. I would love to win one of these, but with the prices on that site I’m strongly considering buying one if I don’t win.
Oh I’d love to have these.I love the design made by the forms!
Beth
I’d love a brotform. Bread tastes better when it’s pretty, don’t you think?
I have been drooling over brotforms for a long time; but since I am currently unemployeed, it will be a while til I can get one…unless I WIN one!! PLEASE?!?!?!?!?
This contest is wonderful. I am attempting a from-scratch starter begun this weekend. It is going very well (thanks hot weather). I’d love the some proofing baskets.
Enjoy your blog and the vast varieties of baked good it displays.
Wow, i didn’t know about these, but I’d love to try making some bread with these. It makes the loaves so beautiful, it makes me excited to bake!
This might be the only time where I’ll say, “I’d like some bread moulds, please!
All your breads are beautiful but these forms make them extra special…especially for a esthetically challenged baker like me. I love this blog, unfortunately for me, I spend endless hours searching and enjoying.
Oh, I have been going to their site and ogling for the past week or so! For me they are even a local company. I really hope I win, but if I don’t, I might order one anyway….
I’m starting to bake bread and I’ve never heard of these. It would be nice to add to my growing collection of bread baking tools!
These are one of the bread baking tools I’ve been lusting after for the past year or so; but I’m a grad student and they’ve been out of my price range. So, yes please I’d love a brotform!
You always have the best stuff on your blog. The brotforms are no exception.
Here’s hoping & with my fingers crossed.
I would love love love love love to show my children how cool and fun bread can look AND taste!! Not to mention that I, myself would love to add them to my bread supplies collection. I’ve been trying to convince myself that I simply have to have these and I’ve succeeded, but my husband who is not a baker cant seem to understand how much I do need them:)
I love all the giveaways you do, they are always great products. I would be overjoyed to have a couple brots.
I’ve used all sorts of crazy things in place of a brotform– emptied out fruit baskets, bowls, tupperware– but now the brotform envy is kicking in again…..
What a wonderful giveaway! I have been pining after brotforms for some time now, but have never made the leap and actually bought one.
Ooh this would take my bread making to the next level. Thanks for having such wonderful giveaways!
OK Here Goes a awful haiku about brotformen
BROTFORMEN
My willow coils
A hollow wheaten vessel
Dusted with flour
Just found your website today and have already subscribed to the rss feed. I just started using baskets for this, but I’d love some real forms.
I have been making bread from a stater that is 12 years old and would love to try it in a brotform. It could help me make an even better rustic loaf.
I’d love one please!
(and the folks above are right, you do have the best giveaways!)
I have been wanting one of these for a quite a while now. I use a wide variety of different shaped bowls to proof my bread in, but they never look nearly as professional as the pictures you post. Thanks for entering me in the drawing!
Me, too. Me, too. Me, too!! -Wingboy
It’s note summer baking season here (it’s 89 in the house right now!), but I’d make great use of these come fall.
Love your blog – please keep up the great work.
Hello, I have always wanted to try these baking bowls, the bread looks soooo beautiful. I procrastinate making bread. Someone I was talking bread to told me about this website and it has been so encouraging. Wining, well the guilt would get me using them and then if they are as wonderful as I have always thought would be very happy.
Cool. I’ve always wanted to try these.
If a dane can enter, I would like to do so 🙂
Thanks for great blog.
Thanks for the brotform link and your all over lovely blog. I have been dreaming about a brotform for a long time, but yes, they are pricey. I wish I get to be lucky winner…
Wow! Those are some gorgeous loaves! I’d love to try one out, count me in 🙂
Wo-hoo! I’ve always wanted one of those forms, they make so pretty loaves of bread. Yours are really adorable!
Those loaves are beautiful! How long do brotforms last?
Dear Brotform.com,
I love your products. My mother-in-law has promised to will me hers when she passes on, but she is too darn healthy for that to be a viable option. Please save our family from matricidal drama and pick me!!!
AH! TO SEE MY LOAVES in the beautiful design of a reed basket – wow! THANX for the purchasing link – your site is ALWAYS colorful and informative and exciting!
Oh, these are lovely! I hope I win. Thanks for the giveaway!
Would absolutely love one, thanks!
please enter me in the contest! thanks! and as always, i love the beautiful pictures on your site 🙂
My current predicatment is that I have one brotform, but typically make more than one loaf of bread at a time. I end up with one exciting flour swirled loaf and one ho-hum loaf. Although I’m working on shaping and scoring my “ho-hum” loaves, wouldn’t it be nice to turn out two brotformed (I totally think that is an acceptable use of the word) loaves at once?! Thanks.
Never own one of them but would love to have one.
Please enter me in the contest. Thank for the giveaway.
ooo pick me! otherwise I’ll have to ask my basket-making mom to branch out into willow or cane & make me some for christmas
Add me to the list of brotform winner hopeful!
You know that sooner or later I will invest in some of them, I would love to win one though, since I can’t splurge nowadays.
I just interviewed a local bread artisan here in Tennessee. He is using baskets with liners he made because he bakes 40 loaves at a time and was telling me of the expense of the cane whatever you call them. I would sure feel special winning these. 🙂
I’ve never won anything, maybe my luck will change and I’ll win a brotform.
Please count me in on the giveaway!
I bake bread just about every weekend, sourdough with my own homemade starter, and some of Peter Reinhart’s recipes.
Would absolutely love to win the brotforms.
Maggie
Finally a purpopse for my underwater basket weaving course from college! =)
Brotoforms are a thing of beauty that then create another thing of beauty and I would love to own one! What a great contest!
I’ve been trying to develop a system of suspending kitchen towels to cradle baguettes as they rest, but it’s not working all too well: they come out too fat, and the tops don’t get nearly the blistery-y, roof-of-mouth-cutting-y texture I’m looking for.
A real brotform would make my day!
I’d love one of these!