# How to make chewy crusty bread.

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 20, 2016, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-make-chewy-crusty-bread/746628 "2016-02-20T16:54:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2016, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-make-chewy-crusty-bread/746628/21 "2016-02-23T18:43:40Z")

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I’ll echo the humidity suggestion for the kind of crust that you want. I do that with most hearth loaves and French/Cuban/Italian loaves.

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