4 or 5 qt cast iron dutch oven, safe up to 500 ✯.

a mixing bowl or a proofing basket ( banneton), 8 or 9″.

If you get into baking bread, using a scale is really the best way to go, but it’s ok to measure when you are starting out

a large mixing bowl with a lid or a large stock pot with a lid (I always use the large pot when I’m making a double recipe).

walnuts (which are optional, but a very enjoyable addition).

To make bread you’ll need the following ingredients: The same principles apply as with sourdough, but you don’t have to mess with creating and maintaining a sourdough starter, and you end up with a gorgeous and delicious loaf. For me, this means starting with a commercial yeast bread. Within months I went from my amateurish looking loaves, to feeling like I could probably sell this stuff for $8/pop.Īs with many things, when you begin to learn techniques, you want to do it with the simplest format possible. While I had found the same sort of information in other places, I love the straight forward and semi-scientific approach he has to baking. I reached a real turning point when I discovered Ken Forkish’s book Flour, Water, Salt, Yeast. I started devouring all the information I could find on baking bread, in books and the internet. My first loaves were flat and a bit misshapen, but still yeasty and sour and delicious.

While I had dabbled in bread baking since high school, I first fell in love with baking bread when I started making sourdough in graduate school. The bread that started my love of baking bread.

So when it came to sharing a bread recipe with you guys, I didn’t know where to start. Whether I’m making bagels, sourdough, slow-rise boules with commercial yeast, pre-fermented bread such as baguettes, rolls or buns. Gaining elasticity and structure simultaneously. There’s something so relaxing about the process, feeling the dough as it develops in your hands. The crackly crust that shatters so perfectly on a freshly baked loaf. Everything about it, from the yeasty smell as it bakes to the soft, squishy, pillowy interior.

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