My first no-knead bread bake
A couple days ago, I saw that friends were all trying out the New York Times' no knead bread recipe and I've been meaning to for years, so I checked our cupboards and lo and behold we had a new bag of bread flour and some live yeast in the fridge (my spouse bakes regularly) so I finally gave it a try. Here's a quick GIF recap of the whole process which took about 18hrs total, even though there is maybe ten minutes of actual work spread across two days.
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There are only four steps in the recipe so I figured I'd use Instagram Stories to compress all the time waiting into a string of short videos. Some notes from baking my first ever loaf of bread:
- I started around noon on Tuesday, mixed the ingredients, then let them rest until the next morning around 7AM.
- I was eating bread by 11AM.
- It feels like cheating, since there's almost no work to it. The crust came out incredible and crunchy and it was no work, just a lot of waiting to produce it.
- We happened to have a new bag of baking flour (I know a lot of stores are currently out and that's a bummer) and already had live yeast in a jar in the fridge, which made it easy. Having good ingredients helps.
- I will never use cotton dish towels as the recipe suggests because they were a horror show afterwards and I've been soaking them for a day to clean. I'm gonna use parchment paper next time.
- The final lid-off baking to brown the top was maybe ended 5min too early. I stopped around 15min on the final step and I should have gone 20 or 25 to let the inside bake fully.
- I can't wait to try this again and everyone has already pointed out the Tartine country bread recipe as being superior, so I might try that one next.
- I still dislike Instagram Stories. I had to use an outside website to fetch my own .mp4 files then convert to animated GIFs to save them here.
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