How can restaurants serve hot bread instantly? surely they dont microwave!?!
I personally would NEVER use a microwave to warm them. At home I would use a casserole glass dish, a moist clean towel on bottom, and put them in oven for 1/2 hour prior to meal, on lowest setting. cover with another clean towel to serve and keep warm at the table, the casserole dish will retain heat and keep warm at the table
Answers: When I was young, I worked in many Restaurants, some helping my mother and others myself, Most places heated them in a Bun Warmer, a stainless steal drawer, specifically used to heat buns.set on a low setting, most places put a clean white, moist towel in the bottom of the drawer, placed the buns in and warmed for a 1/2 hour before serving.
I personally would NEVER use a microwave to warm them. At home I would use a casserole glass dish, a moist clean towel on bottom, and put them in oven for 1/2 hour prior to meal, on lowest setting. cover with another clean towel to serve and keep warm at the table, the casserole dish will retain heat and keep warm at the table
Surely they do!..
steam tables and warm bread boxes
Heat Lamps and Hot Racks!
They keep em' under heat lamps.
It really doesn't take long to heat up bread!
Lots of restaurants do use microwaves *shock*, but even in an oven or under a grill, heating up bread takes half a minute!
Keep in mind that in a busy restaurant, the food (especially things that are served by default like bread) will be on the go constantly...they don't just start heating it up when you sit down...if you didn't come in for dinner, somebody else would have.
I don't know what they're called, but heated metal cupboards/presses are also used. If you're wanting to serve hot bread at home for a dinner party or something, just wrap it in foil and leave it on the bottom rack of the oven while you're cooking for 15 minutes or so to heat through - this way it won't go crispy or dry out.
No not microwave - the bread would not be crisp. Restaurants have very hot ovens - far more so than domestic - so this can be done very quickly.
Baguettes are taken from the freezer to the microwave.
So you are half right.
Sorry if I've disillusioned you!
Shame isn't it - always "beware" when it says "home made" and think to yourself......aaah but which home was it made in!
You would be very surprised!!!
Some restaurants, unfortunately use the microwave (way to much) most hold the warm bread in a warm bread drawer. The drawer keeps the bread hot and a little humidity keeps it moist. Some restaurants are constantly baking small amounts of bread and or biscuits like Red Lobster does to keep it the freshest.
I am a server at a Golden Corral restaurant in middle Georgia. We serve out rolls hot because they are kept in a warming oven for us. We bring them directly to your table with plenty of honey butter. Our yeast rolls are just one of the items that keep our guests coming back . . . .
If you are wanting to know how to achieve this at home
heat your buns in the oven and when hot transfer into a preheated crockpot or slow cooker.