I suspect a plain hair dryer can’t produce that much heat, however a hot air gun should work neatly (I used routinely a Bosch PHG 600-3 and I want to point out that you can seriously burn yourself if you don’t properly handle it).
Alton Brown, in a recent Good Eats episode, went through the several ways to toast bread for croutons:
oven broiler / toaster oven
grill
heat gun
blowtorch (of the kind used to solder copper pipes, available cheaply at hardware stores)
I’ve seen him recommend heat guns on other occasions so I bet it would work just fine.
I suspect a plain hair dryer can’t produce that much heat, however a hot air gun should work neatly (I used routinely a Bosch PHG 600-3 and I want to point out that you can seriously burn yourself if you don’t properly handle it).
Alton Brown, in a recent Good Eats episode, went through the several ways to toast bread for croutons:
oven broiler / toaster oven
grill
heat gun
blowtorch (of the kind used to solder copper pipes, available cheaply at hardware stores)
I’ve seen him recommend heat guns on other occasions so I bet it would work just fine.