Bread scoring is the practice of slashing the surface of bread dough immediately before baking it. Why? As crusty bread bakes, it rises quickly and dramatically (bakers call this “oven spring”). The ...

The score of a loaf of bread is what's responsible for its design on top, commonly diagonal slashes for long loaves like ...

One of the bread baking mistakes everyone makes, specifically with crusty varieties, is not scoring the bread dough before baking it. Scoring has multiple purposes: It controls where the loaf ruptures ...