no-knead breadmaking

[Kat]

I found a link for a recipe book of bread recipes that don't require kneading or very little of it. It may be helpful when the yeast runs out or goes bad or for people who can't physically knead bread.

https://www.breadbreakthrough.com

I'd love to hear anyone's tips on breadmaking. Any things you have tried that worked/didn't work, recipes, etc... I'd like to get better at this and would appreciate any ideas.

[crossbow]

here's where I first saw the no knead bread, we just replaced a couple cups of the white flour with our own ground whole wheat,a little honey and a TS of olive oil. we're not big bread eaters here, but did make a few outside using the dutch oven just in case we had to someday, it wasn't as pretty as his, but it was edible. regulating the heat on the top and bottom of the dutch oven was the biggest problem.

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

[EX121]

Thanks for the tips. An easy rule of thumb for regulating the heat of your dutch oven is if you are using a 12in oven to use 14 charcoal briquets on the bottom & 10 on the top. Take the oven size in inches & add 2 for the bottom & subtract 2 for the top. If you can visualize this amount of 'coals' then it works the same. This gives you about a 350 degree oven. Also I've found that if you rotate your oven 1/4 turn every 15 minutes or so you will get a more even results.

[1Admin]

Their is something also about charcoal- each briquet equals 15 degrees of heat.

I've only used charcoal a couple times with dutch ovens, usually just use wood. A lot tougher but fun :)

[crossbow]

all we use is wood, there may come a day when charcoal isn't available and we don't want to try and learn anything when it's to late, funny thing thou, i was at a Homedepot last week and they had two 20 pound bags of charcoal for 8.99 on a sale from 15.99. I left there and made a stop at BJs about 1 miles away where their charcoal was 15.99. I told a couple people in BJs about the sale down the rd as they both had 4 bags of charcoal and they looked like working slobs, they looked at me like i was nuts and i saw them at the counter paying for the stuff. I figure they had more money than brains as they wouldn't drive a mile to save 20 dollars. i guess i should have mentioned to them that it only cost 56 cents a mile to operate a medium size auto.gas, insurance,maintence ect.

[Kat]

Crossbow, I went and watched the YouTube video link you posted. I never thought to look on YouTube for that! It's a resource I should use more :) There were tons of people who had videos about that. I looks so easy. I'm going to re-watch some and try it. Thanks for the link.

[Lowdown3]

I've never understood why more people didn't use wood instead of charcoal. Sorry for the thread drift Kat.