Saint Germain Bakery Premium Round Bread Banneton Basket with Liner - Perfect Brotform Proofing Basket for Making Beautiful Bread (10 inch Oval)

love the bannington basket it is well made and works perfectly. couldn't be happier!

This brand Banneton Basket is taller, wider and longer than other brands claiming to be the same size. The other brands are 5 3/4" wide this one is 6 1/4" wide, others are 3" deep, this one is over 3 3/4" deep, length is 10 1/8" compared to the others that are just 10". Depth & width are important especially if you are making a 500-600 gram flour weight loaf @ 75-80% hydration 20% starter, 2% salt. Construction is excellent as Banneton shape is more difficult to build than rounds, no large gaps, very flat and even bottom and sides, staples/metal fastening devices are neatly recessed, no sharp protrusions. Fit and finish is excellent - linen cover is sized and cut perfectly as a liner or cover. There is a bit of a chemical smell when opened - but if left out of airtight plastic wrapping for an hour or so it disappears - Ithink it is just part of the manufacturing process, nothing to be concerned with but if it really bothers you just rinse basket and linen in warm water and let both air dry - I let it dry as I was heating oven for a bake (on top of stovetop - MAKE SURE ANYTIME YOU WASH and DRY the LINEN that you have it attached to Banneton - I attach to Banneton using the built in elastic band and pull it up like a cover to air dry it so it keeps its shape - otherwise it may shrink as it is a natural product. After I "Rice Floured" the basket and linen - first time using it (I did not wet the basket or linen as I needed them right away) - between the fresh air time out of the packaging plastic bag and the rice flour coating (I changed the rice flour before putting dough in banneton just in case) all the odor was completely gone. The loaf after 24 hours of cold retard in banneton, came out perfect (better than the one in my older smaller banneton).Storage: I always Dry on stovetop, brush all old flour off and reapply a light coat of rice flour before storing all my rounds and ovals baskets/linens in an airtight zip lock bag before storing - I will rinse any linens that have caked on flour if brushing doesn't work but again must be completely dry & dusted to prevent mold.Great product at a very fair price - fast delivery (24-48 hours).Chris

These baskets work as intended and make it easier to make my sourdough loaves. They seem well made too and look nice.

Better than expected! Easily holds 500gram sourdough recipe. I believe it could accommodate up to 750. Really takes bread fermentation to the max! I move dough into parchment then turn into preheated oval lidded cast iron pan.

Quality seems very nice. I haven't used it just yet but I don't think that will affect my review. I plan to season it with the rice flour method. Happy Baking!

This is my first banneton, but I feel it works quite well. Note the size, and see how large your boule shapes for your favorite recipe are before purchasing. I find I need to cut my dough in half as this is a little small for my favorite recipe. It works wonderfully, though. I flour the cloth, dump the excess, fold the dough to get some surface tension, then place it in the banneton for final proofing. It flips out easily when it's ready and the slightly dryer and tight surface scores easily. I bought a second so that I could give all of my dough this shape.

Very happy with product. Meet my expectations

I wanted to give 3 stars because of the issues ive gone thru, but the size /price was most important to me at this time, so i overlooked some of the other issues when making my rating.This is the 3rd basket oval basket I ordered, and returned the 2nd due to some damages i could not overlook.The baskets as a whole are of good build quality 4.5. The size of the baskets are as described (many of them come to you a bit off in measurements). The but in the tile the quality of the ratan is not so good. It is a decent quality but by no means smooth and has some to many strands. The first basket had a few strands which i picked out with a tweezer, it holds a good 500g loaf and then some. 2nd had some cracks and sharp ends sticking out so returned, and the 3rd (today) had a lot of strands that took about a half hour to get rid of. Was it worth it, maybe not... but returning for another basket was not something I felt necessary enough to order a 4th. I have bought quite a few round baskets and 1 oval from another company, and the oval was one of those "shortchanged" ones, it was not as tall or long as it said in the advert (it was probably measuring from the outside). There are other companies with better products but oval baskets are a bit harder to find, that don't come with all the extra garbage adding to the cost.March 21 -update: I have been using these baskets almost once a week since purchasing. The splintering problem has increased to more than just an annoyance, its almost ridiculous! I may move over to using the cloth covers instead, even though I really like the rib texturing. At this point, if I have to use the cloth at all, why use a ratan basket at all?