To make a better crust, [Chris] used a pressure cooker fitted with a valve to inject steam into an oven through his oven’s exhaust. Not only does this gelatinate the starches in the bread crust ...

Having everyone involved not only helps get them excited ... When baking bread, place a small dish of water in the oven to help keep the crust from getting too hard or too brown ...

Crusts cut off of loaves of sandwich bread Yoshioka Kenichi makes beer from bread crusts The browned outer surface left over from baking known as the crust is cut away and discarded.