No-knead bread

Or, for those like me, who have to re-assemble long URLs:

Dave

Thank you for posting this- I wish I had a big covered pot I could use. I have a round clear pyrex bowl with a lid- it's kinda small, but I suppose I could try to make a 1# or so loaf- think it's worth a try? I also have starter, so I would try to use that. Have you tried it?

This recipe calls for 1/4 t yeast, and 1 1/4 t salt. Can that be right? It seems to me that it should be the other way around...

Joe

Not at all, Joe! The whole point of this recipe was to make a very lomg, slow rise, starting from a very small amount of yeast.

1.5 t salt to my calculated/weighed 524 g of flour is a little under 3%. I usually use 2%, but this was definately not too much.

Dave

If 1.5 t= 1.5 teaspoon.. and .if that is salt then a teaspoon of salt is about 5 grams then one and half tsp will be 7.5grams divided by 524 grams flour x 100 that is about 1.4% based on flour weight.

Dave Bell wrote:

OK Dave, I'm going to make a loaf this weekend. What diameter pot did you use?

Joe

I used 10" ID, 8 qt pot, but I think it was a little too large. Next time, I'll go with a deepish 6 qt. On the other hand, I was using spelt flour, which doesn't rise or spring as much as wheat...

Dave

Don't mess around with the recipe until you've done it once the way the creator designed it. Otherwise, you'll never understand it. Don't use a starter. Don't try to scale it. Don't try to do it in a small bowl. Do it right once.

I've tried it a few times and I like the results.

Pastorio

"Bob (this one)" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@corp.supernews.com:

Yawn,

Says in that Yaaaaaawwwwnnnnn recipe "Knead it, roll it in flour and put it right back in the bowl you mixed it up in. Cover the bowl and go to sleep."

Well, you got the "go to sleep" part right even if you missed the "knead" part.

That recipe has eight ingredients. The above from the Times has four.

Save your yawns for any more Muppet-like brainstorms you might have like this. Ooops. Oh look. You've managed to pee on *both* shoes this time.

Pastorio