The Secret Lives of Loaves

During many bouts of testing several recipes for various books and articles, I noticed something quite peculiar: loaves (or quick breads) actually look and taste better baked in a conventional home oven compared with the large convection-style ovens often found in restaurants and patisseries (mine included). The longer bake of a conventional oven coupled with the absence of a convection fan allows the loaf to bake up from the bottom, creating a perfect dome, crack, and moist crumb. The conv