I followed the instructions, thawing it and then baking it - and it was so delicious! It lasted me almost a week since I'm the only one eating it, and it was still great after 6 days!

This bread is the real deal if you want to have ein echtes Deutsches fruhstück! After we received our shipment I put the bread in our freezer. A week later I took one of these loafs out of the freezer. It was frozen solid and I let it thaw out over night. It came with oven instructions, but I tried something different. We have a Cosori air fryer. The baking instructions that came with the bread mentioned baking it with steam. I put 1/4 cup of water in the air fryer and ran it through the pre heat cycle and I set it on 350 degrees for pre heating. The pre heat cycle ran for 4 minutes. Then immediately after pre heating, and without adding more water I put the bread in the basket and hit the “Bread” setting. When I hit the “Bread” button, the default setting came up as 320 degrees for 8 minutes. I didn’t change anything at all and let it run on the entire 320 degrees for 8 minutes. As soon as it was finished I took it out and set it on a bread rack to let it cool. It turned out absolutely perfect inside and out. And the crust war knusprig wie echtes Deutsches brot frisch aus dem Bäckerei!

.............next time we going to defrost it first - we put it in the oven frozen - maybe that's why there was a little layer of softness under the crust? Flavor and texure was fine!