French Bread Pan

I had a question about where to buy a French Bread pan to make the YUMMY Hawaiian Bread I've posted on here.  Well, I have some strong feelings about my pan so I figured I would share for any of you that may go out and buy one.

DO NOT buy a French bread pan that looks like this...

 

You can see that this pan is just a solid piece of metal.  I had one of these at first and I HATED it!  The bottom of the bread would bake great at the ends but the middle was always a little undercooked.  If I baked it longer to brown the middle then the ends would be overdone.  Don't do it!

You want to search out a pan that looks like this...

You can see that it has little holes all along the bottom of it to help the bread bake more evenly.  My bread turns out SO MUCH better in this pan.  It even makes cute little polka-dots on the bottom to make me feel professional.  haha!  

This pan is a little more expensive than the solid one but it is definitely worth the difference!  My mother in-law bought mine for me but I have found they should be pretty easy to find...according to Google Shopping anyway.