I made this for fun, at first. 6 hour later its not fun anymore and i get so annoyed it takes so long. The rest, waiting time, baking time takes approx. 8hr in total. Id stick to easier baked goods with minimal waiting time in between. I’m glad bread isnt my staple food. That being said, you guys are freaking amazing. I respect everyone who do this all the time, but it’s not for me. It takes forever and mine doesnt even taste that good 🤣
by Alternative_Owl5866
42 Comments
I love bread but it takes forever to bake bread. Sometimes I make one even if I don’t want one. By the time it is done, who knows!
Enjoy your bread from the bakery. No shame in not doing something you don’t enjoy. You can get excellent quality bread from local bakers in most places.
I’m going to suggest making a classic loaf of bread. King Arthur and Sally’s Baking Addiction both have easy classic white bread recipes. If you want a rustic loaf then that’s a different animal.
Sometimes trying to do something is important if for no other reason than to appreciate what it takes to do it well.
I enjoy the process, and my standard recipes take over 24 hours (start the levain in the morning Day 1, go through mixing, folding, fermenting in evening, proof overnight, bake morning of Day 2). To me, it’s rewarding getting nice loaves out after all that effort, especially when I have a really nice crumb!
If you didn’t get much out of it, that’s ok, it’s not for everyone! Hope you get good bread from the bakery. Hope you got something out of the experience of trying 🙂
I totally get that 😅 if it’s something you’d ever like to try again, there are some less time consuming recipes that might be worth a shot! But tbh if it doesn’t bring you joy, you definitely don’t have to! Sometimes store bought is just the way to go
I am not great at baking bread. [This is my go to recipe](http://keephomesimple.blogspot.com/2010/05/quick-french-bread.html?m=1) for 2 loaves of French bread in an hour. It always turns out. I add more salt than the recipe calls for
I couldn’t bake bread either! But I did start making focaccia last year. It’s so simple and delicious 😋
Good for you for giving it a go, but recognizing that its not for you! My wife doesn’t have the patience for it either but then bakes wonderful things I don’t do. To me its about process, science, and intuition. Its a skill you develop over time vs. “follow this recipe” kind of cooking! Still though, doesn’t look too bad!
I bake bread all the time— but it’s on a day I know I plan to be hanging out at home, and only in fall/winter and very early spring.
I will say once you do it enough, those long stretches of time are nothing. Mostly because really all you are doing is taking a minute to fold and then leaving it again, or kneading and then letting it rest. Once you know the routine of your bread, is far less stressful to work around it.
But hey, no shame on a local bakery. I do that too even though I can easily make my own, because sometimes it’s just too hot or I didn’t realize I ran out.
We all started with gummy bread
Sleep on it but I would urge you to try again 🙏. This is one of my favorite and most fulfilling hobbies.
Bread can be tricky. But good for you on trying.
We have alot of Amish here so I go to my favorite store so I can get their sourdough bread, I can handle it better than regular bread.
Good news is as you get better you will get faster and find shortcuts, in general once you learn the timing you don’t sit around waiting for it. But no shame in buying food bread too! Buy from the local bakery if possible not the chain stores!
There’s some great no knead recipes out there and lots of quick breads, unleavened breads etc that are very satisfying to make. So maybe if you get the itch again but were turned off by this loaf, you might start with those recipes.
I’m sorry you had a bad time. I’m intermediate now, but i have made some failed breads in my time. Now I have a good routine with stretch and folds so i can make a bread on a work night, but it’s typically focaccia which is easy and simple.
Looks great! Maybe try a no knead Artesian Bread?? Mix the dough, let it rise, put it in the fridge, let it come to room temp, give it four Folds and pop it in the oven
There are much easier ways to make bread
Give focaccia a go, it’s pretty hands off easy and delicious
Looks better than my first loaf! I made a few hard discs before I got a loaf to look like yours.
No shame in not wanting to do it. I just have to say that it gets a lot easier with practice. Bread isn’t as complicated as the internet makes it seem. It does take a lot of trial and error, but once you get it, it really doesn’t take much time at all. Really only 20ish minutes of active time mixing/shaping (depending on what you’re making), the rest of the time is all just resting and baking, which you can do whatever else (like sleep!).
Most recipes you can mix together after dinner, stick it in the fridge overnight and then take it out when you’re ready to bake it (within a few days). I almost always have some sort of dough fermenting in the fridge. I’ve got dough for baguettes in the fridge now to go with my french onion beef shank stew/soup I’m making tomorrow for dinner. Took me 5 minutes to mix it together, it’ll be another 5 minutes to weigh/shape them, then it will be like 4 hours of letting them proof and then bake.
It takes a few times to get it how you want. I almost threw in the towel. But, I kept going, and now I make some fantastic bread. It did take about 20 loaves, though, before I felt like I kinda knew how to make bread. And, I still tank it from time to time.
You can make a standard sandwich loaf in about 2h start to finish unless you are particularly wanting to make sourdough…
You can always do both!!
I use a bread machine because bread takes so long to make. Our local bakery closed so I bought the machine. I will dedicate time and energy for sourdough. Usually over a weekend. Otherwise, though, bread machine it is.
Started my bread journey making focaccia. It’s super easy to make and so yummy. I’ve made some brioche. But right now I’m onto doing sourdough. Yes it it’s an all day thing but time spent actually hands on with the dough is so little you can do other things while waiting.
It gets better pretty fast! Keep reading recipes and watching videos. Everybody starts in the same place! I love your lil babies they remind me of my first bakes xxx
Don’t give up! Even Tiger Woods didn’t win his first pro golf tournament. Took him 5 more tries, so keep baking, you can do this. 👍🏻😊
I remember helping my grandma bake bread when I was a kid. We’d do the bulk of it in the evening, then leave it overnight up on a tall cupboard as warmer up high, lightly cover it to keep bugs etc out, then up at 6 next morning to put in oven, ready for breakfast that morning.
You can definitely get much faster at it. It does take a fair amount of practice to get to decent bread consistently. A lot of it is learning your oven. If you don’t enjoy it buy your bread. But if you’re just put off by how much time it took I’ve been able to shave a bunch off my baguettes, I’ve gotten it down to about 15 mins of work up front, rest for 3-4 hrs and then about 15 mins of work, rest for an hour then cook for about 20 mins. If that sounds doable stick with it but if not that’s ok, it was worth a try!
Or keep baking and you’ll improve in time
I felt the same, then I found a recipe for some cornmeal buns, try making buns, they’re a lot less daunting and you can use them for sandwiches and stuff.
I now look forward to making bread, I love kneading bread though and most people use a mixer and hate doing it, but I like to get a big mass of dough and beat the fuck out of it, feels good, and then I eat a bunch of pulled pork buns.
I bake bread because I need bread to eat throughout the week, I am not baking bread for fun (well maybe i am), I make it to survive. Think of why you’re baking bread, you’re here to learn a skill, to improve and get better, well you’re already doing it.
Instant yeast French breads take maybe an hour to make. But don’t do it if you don’t want to! Your local bakers appreciate your business 😊
I bake bread every week. I give myself 3 hours. 20 minutes to mix, first punch down after30 minutes rest, punch down at 20 minutes, form loaves after another 15 minutes then into the oven for the last rise, at the end of which i turn the oven on and bake from a cold oven. It’s done in around 1 hour of baking.
You miss 100% of the carbs you don’t bake.
– Michael Jordan
– Michael Scott
Most of bread making is waiting. If you want another go, maybe try something like focaccia. Delicious and spares ya the shaping issues. If you really want to learn patience, grow some vegetables or herbs from seed!
Enjoy. What a magical time I am so happy for you! I remember bringing my whole loaf to work and people giving me weird faces when I offered them some 😂
May you be that proud of your work
Once you get into a groove with the proper equipment and proofing tray… It will take literally 5 minutes of your time to make bread. And you are saving $6 a loaf.
Good, give up your first try. Always a good plan! Nothing good ever comes from trying more than once!
I buy premade dough from the Italian grocery store. Cuts down on time.
Welcome to baking. It only took me 5 years to get good.
I struggle with kneading because of carpal tunnel issues so I do no knead recipes that are super easy (I have some overnight ones or one like that only takes like 2 hours). I also will let my bread machine do the kneading and rising for me sometimes and I just do the final shape and bake in the oven.
Practice makes perfect!!
You’re doing great. Keep at it!