No-knead bread

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No-knead bread

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I'm making sourdough bread now, and I've made yeast bread before - kneading the dough after the first rising, sore hands, wrists etc.
Now I'm making a foray into no-knead bread.
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>Time: About 1½ hours plus 14 to 20 hours’ rising

One of the reasons I don't bake bread more is I don't plan ahead enough -- I don't think increasing the time to produce a loaf to almost an entire day would help matters.

I do recall my mother experimenting with a no-knead bread recipe that appeared to be more like a batter than a dough, but she only made it once or twice before going back to the old tried and true version that needed kneading.
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ChrisGreaves wrote: Any "tips for young players" before I begin?
Buy a bread making machine. :innocent:
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Doc Watson wrote:Buy a bread making machine. :innocent:
Or buy a bread at a quality bakery. It's probably cheaper...
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HansV wrote:Or buy a bread at a quality bakery. It's probably cheaper...
That was my conclusion, and more. I went on a whole wheat sourdough breadmaking "tour" last year for several months, and the time and energy and especially water use in the cleanup led me to the conclusion that if I can buy high quality high protein bread from a store, I'm better off from a time and resource standpoint.
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BUT, when you buy your bread premade, you can not make a pan or two of the great Cinnamon and/or Pineapple rolls.
These will get you started each morning with the nice hot cup of Coffee or Hot Chocolate?
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Doc Watson wrote:Buy a bread making machine.
I've had two already, and don't anticipate the alimony agony of parting with a third, but thanks anyway :weep:
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DaveA wrote:.. you can not make a pan or two ...
Well, strictly speaking you CAN have your cake and heat it too. I see nothing wrong with buying store-brought pre-sliced bread, especially if I'm taking sandwiches to work.
That shouldn't inhibit one, or even two, from making fresh hot crispy crunchy bread straight from the oven for guests. Laced (*) with grated carrot, or raisins, or both.
I'm with you on the fresh-and-hot first thing each morning. :yep:

(*)And before Jezza wakes up, I am referring to the dough, not the guests.
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HansV wrote:Or buy a bread at a quality bakery. It's probably cheaper...
Don't be silly, Hans!
That'd be like asking for a solution in an on-line forum instead of rolling up one's sleeves and writing the VBA code from scratch!


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DaveA wrote:BUT, when you buy your bread premade, you can not make a pan or two of the great Cinnamon and/or Pineapple rolls.
Um, Dave, why not? Is there some kind of weird law in your State that if you buy bread you can't make cinnamon rolls? :duck:

More seriously, sourdough whole wheat bread rises pretty slowly, and has to rise, be punched down, and rise again, so the process takes about six hours. I don't fancy getting up at 1 AM for fresh bread at 7 AM. :chef:
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ChrisGreaves wrote:
Doc Watson wrote:Buy a bread making machine.
I've had two already, and don't anticipate the alimony agony of parting with a third, but thanks anyway :weep:
Your technique is all wrong. You don't marry a bread maker, you marry a doctor. Then they pay you alimony. :evilgrin:
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I am going to have dig out my recipe for bread. It takes very little needing, just punch it down.

I made the bread in the afternoon, but the cinnamon and pineapple rolls I put in the pans, then let them raise in the frig over night and they are just right for popping in the oven the next morning while I get coffee made and ready for the new day.
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