My family enjoyed the Essential Baking Italian Bake-at-Home Bread so much, they influenced me to write a review.  This is the perfect answer to a bowl of hot chowder or stew on a cold week day night, and it's ready perfect in 8 minutes!  If your quick or slow cooked meal is begging for bread to round it out, then this hearty and crackling crust with its chewy, yet airy body will pair well in a hurry. Be sure to top it with some delicious Smith Brothers Sweet Cream Butter!

This bread is so yummy, the Italian flavor is delicious! We love spaghetti in our house and this and the sourdough flavor are great additions to our spaghetti meals. Super yummy.

We've enjoyed  Italian bake-at-home loafs before so we are familiar with this type of bread. Unfortunately, we were preetty disappointed.  The loaf was smaller than expected and pretty tough chewing.

Was so excited to have warm, freshly baked bread but no one ate it.  Decidedly sour taste and that's the "Italian" loaf!

My family loved this loaf fresh out of the oven. I really appreciate the packaging  which is so unique as it stays fresh in the pantry a long time.

Yes it is true this bread is a little denser than fluffy since there is no added yeast. But for those of us with a yeast intolerance, it is a godsend. Also my entire family enjoys this fresh out of the oven with pasta. It also keeps unopened for a really really long time.

My husband & family noted this French bread has a bit of a sourdough flavor. some liked it and some didn't. I thought it was still good. We'll get it again.

It has a sourdough taste, which would be okay if we didn't hate sourdough!

It has a sourdough taste, which would be okay if we didn't hate sourdough!

I ordered this and was very unhappy with the product...I let it bake for 12 min, as instructed, and it was too hard to eat...

I have bought this product twice. Both times, the bread bag had too much air removed, and the bread collapsed on itself.  I've baked it frozen and I've baked it fresh.   The bread that came out of the oven had dense, uneven texture, and crushed crust.  it looked like it had been squeezed. I have a seal a meal, and removing too much air does this.  It's hard to slice, and just unappetizing.

Doesn’t taste right. I thought we had sourdough but ordered it several more times and it taste sourdough and not french bread.

consistency was weird, cooked it for the time it said, it was done, but it was kind of mushy but dense, and flavor was off too.

The crunchy crust and chewy center so good. For me and my family this bread is delicious. my daughter made homemade goulash last night and we sliced the Bread and added garlic butter. 😋 definitely will order more as the cooler weather pushes in on us looking forward to hot bread out of the oven with our favorite soups for lunch or our favorite evening meals.