Challah two ways

[spinbaby]

I decided today to bake one loaf of challah in a conventional oven and one in my steam convection oven. The one in the steam oven definitely had more oven spring, but lost definition, so the braiding was less obvious. It baked much faster and came out much darker even though the conventional loaf baked ten minutes more at the same temperature. It was a lovely experiment, but I think I’ll stick with the regular oven from now on, although I may change my mind after I actually taste the loaves.

In the photo, conventional loaf on the left, steam convection on the right.

[MLAA]

1. I'd be happy to have either! Yum.