The Alluring Scent of Burning Plastic.

  • Baking involves all five senses, for sure.  I enjoy baking in large part because of the smells that butter, sugar and other wonderful things create after baking together for 20 minutes or so.  You know what I’m talking about: the dessert-in-the-oven-smell.

    I don’t enjoy the smell of burning saran wrap, however, and I don’t recommend that you recreate this recipe for disaster, either.  So learn from my mistake:  when letting dough rise in a “nice warm place”, don’t get all smart and put your bowl on the stovetop of a hot oven (hot from baking something like Butterscotch Blondies with Caramel Icing, for example).  On a gas range, the heat from the oven really does sneak out of the burners (who knew?), and said heat really will melt the crap out of the plastic wrap that keeps the rising dough insulated in its yeasty wonderland.

    So when making something like Cinnamon Raisin Swirl Bread, wise up and keep your saran-wrapped bowl off the oven.  And you’ll also happen to avoid setting off your smoke alarm, which can be really annoying when juggling three baking projects at once.

     

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