Achieving bakery-quality bread at home often means wrestling with heavy Dutch ovens and dangerously hot cookware. The Brød & Taylor Baking Shell (Batard) changes everything, offering a lighter, safer, and more convenient way to bake artisan loaves. By trapping steam and distributing heat evenly, it creates the perfect environment for golden, crispy crusts and airy, open interiors, all without the hassle of preheating or handling cast iron.
Traditional bread baking often calls for preheating heavy Dutch ovens to extreme temperatures, which can be intimidating and risky to handle. The Baking Shell delivers the same results without the stress. Lightweight and easy to position, it simply sits over your dough on a flat baking surface, eliminating the most frantic part of baking while still producing loaves that look and taste bakery-fresh.
The key to great sourdough lies in the balance of steam and heat, and the Baking Shell excels at both. It traps just the right amount of steam to allow the dough to expand fully before setting the crust, while quickly conducting heat for even baking. The result is bread with an open crumb, rich flavour, and the kind of golden, blistered crust that defines artisan baking.
Unlike cast iron, which requires preheating and carries the risk of burns or cracking, the Baking Shell is designed for simplicity. There’s no preheating, no heavy lifting, and no danger of thermal shock. Once your loaf is baking, the shell cools down quickly after use, making clean-up and storage effortless. It’s a modern tool that takes the stress out of bread baking while preserving all the tradition of great sourdough.
All UK orders with a total value over £100 are sent with a free next working day delivery service, which operates Monday to Friday. Most mainland UK orders arrive the next day after dispatch, while deliveries to the Scottish Highlands and UK offshore islands may take up to two working days. International delivery times vary depending on the destination and courier service chosen. To qualify for next working day delivery, please ensure your order is placed before 15:00, as orders submitted after this time will be dispatched on the next available working day. For more details or country-specific delivery estimates, please contact our friendly customer service team.
All orders destined for the UK with a total value of £100 or more are eligible for free delivery. Orders with a lower value will have a standard delivery charge of £3.95. For a full list of our delivery options, please see our delivery information page.
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Our Shipping options include free next-day delivery to the UK mainland on orders over £100; orders below £100 would have to pay £6.95 for next-day delivery or £3.95 for standard delivery. If you would like to receive your parcel on the weekend, there is also an option for that, costing £14.95. For UK offshore deliveries, we offer free delivery on all orders over £150 and for orders below £150, shipping may vary from £7.50 to £10.95. If you would like more information on this, view our delivery rates webpage here.
If you have received a faulty or damaged product, you can reach out to our support team (support@juicers.co.uk) to discuss your available options. These include receiving a refund or getting another unit sent out to you as a replacement, and shipping the faulty and or damaged unit back. If you have used the product before contacting us, you would need to provide evidence that the unit was faulty before use and did not become damaged or faulty due to user error when using the product. If you would like to read a more in-depth breakdown of our returns policy, we have a full webpage dedicated to that here.
If you place your order over the weekend, it will be processed, packed, and dispatched on the next working day (Monday to Friday). Your delivery time will then depend on the shipping option selected at checkout, such as next-day delivery or standard delivery.
