I’ve been cooking for a long time but mostly follow instincts and my own recipes. However, I tend to get really critical and overly analytical about cooking for others and I want to overcome this by following more recipes and growing my skills. When hosting dinners I constantly worry if a dish tastes good, if I’ve made a mistake, if the appearance is off but I rarely have these issues when I cook for myself, so I’m trying to improve my overall confidence in the kitchen and decided to make the easiest 4-ingredient recipe for bread I could find online (FastEasyDelicious1’s No-knead recipe). Definitely learned some things (like going lighter on dusting flour over the dough and getting a real wire rack).
I’m a beginner and baking doesn’t come naturally to me but I enjoyed this a lot and it came out delicious. If there are any beginner friendly bread recipes you can recommend, let me know!
by lightanldutchie
11 Comments
The bread looks very nice but that JAM THOUGH! ❤️😋🤤
No knead bread tends to come out looking like this, just a little unfinished compared to a kneaded bread. Yours looks good, crumb looks good too. Again, all the no knead bread I’ve done tends to have a tighter crumb like this. Did you enjoy it? Was it good with butter and jam? If so, you got a tasty loaf that looks pretty good! I’d call that success!
Try a simple sandwich bread off web search or off of King Arthur website. You did good here, I promise you it’s just barely a little more work to make a kneaded dough and you really do get more of nice fluffy crumb with a nice looking crust. Worst case, if you try it and you feel like it wasn’t worth it, just go back to making No knead bread!
Great job!
I’m really hungry and this made my mouth water
Wow, that’s a stunner. Perfect rise and crust development. You’re already ahead of the game.
It looks good. Yummy
I’m playing with no need myself. The last loaf I made I laid it out on a floured cookie sheet and I folded it just three or four times. Throw in some flour between the folds. Very minor stretching and forming into a loaf. Came out very nice and very good. It’s a pretty versatile dough apparently
First loaf?? You actually did really well!
Looks wonderful
From one low confidence cook to another, this looks so great!!
Looks good to me. No knead is supposed to look rustic.
Jeeze, save some jam for the rest of us