No knead bread. Something to play with during the long winter months.... the old DO in the kitchen oven works nice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13Ah9ES2yTU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LaODcYSRXU

makes the house smell better unless you screw something up.

drbob

Very cool...I'll give it a try. Thanks!

I have made this several times and it does make a good loaf of bread.

Would you just leave covered in a dutch oven?

Bake it in a DO, but let it sit for 12 hours+ in the mixing bowl.
Do a search on Google for lots of variations. After learning this I disposed of my bread maker.

butthead

I have used that second recipe with vinegar and a shorter rise time... I have a DO with a rounded top that works decent in the oven. Fun and not time consuming.

bobderrig

I was not clear. The recipes all seem to say cook last ten minutes uncovered. Just seemed a little problematic on a campfire. I suppose top could be propped open just a little to brown.

nope....this is a indoor winter time project to keep your DO skills up.....he wants the lid open 10 minutes to get a better crust on...I believe. Wonder how many coals it would take to get it cranked up to 500' ????
come to think of it....DO Charcoal would probably work fine...but I wouldn't take the lid off..would just lose too much heat....maybe take all the heat off the bottom ?
that 500' is blazing hot...when a guy takes the lid off in the oven...you can get a facefull of pretty hot moist heat

I use a little less water than the original recipe and it makes a lot less of a mess. This is a really good video series where I learned that - Almost-No-Knead-Bread. Also lots of corn meal to coat the outside of the dough to prevent sticking. I've made this over the firepit in the DO a few times. It browns enough cooking normally with almost all the heat from the top of the DO. The top crust ends up kind of thick anyway, so you don't want to brown it too much. I used same recipe to make pizza crust this summer in BWCA, worked great. Used foil convection tent over fire grate for that.

thanks for the link....next weekend's experiment

dr bob

Here's another video. Sometimes it's good to hear something explained by a couple of different people, even something as simple as this.

Bread Video

If you want to really get crazy....a fun read

"52 Loaves" A half-baked Adventure
by William Alexander

dr bob

Made two loaves yesterday and it turned out pretty good! Definitely sticks to your ribs.

The problem for me is, if you practice the recipe enough to get good at it, you'll gain 500lbs. To get me out of the house, they'd have to cut a big hole with a Gransfors small forest axe and then use a front end loader. So I always try to line up taste testers, the dog, the neighbors dogs, etc.

fresh baked bread with a slab of butter on it.....

:-)