{"id":4156,"date":"2010-01-18T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T12:12:45","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-01-14T16:43:28","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T23:43:28","slug":"no-knead-bread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/no-knead-bread\/","title":{"rendered":"No-Knead Bread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bread is my favorite food, but I&#8217;m no baker. I hadn&#8217;t been one, at least, before a friend showed me the well-known <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=13Ah9ES2yTU\">New York Times video<\/a> of Jim Lahey going through the remarkably simple steps of the no-knead approach to breadmaking. Mix the ingredients; let the resulting dough sit for 18 hours; fold; bake. That&#8217;s it. The resulting bread has a crunchy, thick crust, soft, chewy interior and excellent flavor.<\/p>\n<p>No-knead bread is baking for nonbakers, perhaps also for skilled bakers too busy to bother with more labor-intensive approaches. This process requires so little effort but yields a beautiful, satisfying, delicious creation. It&#8217;s really not much harder than making toast.<\/p>\n<p>Since learning this technique, I&#8217;ve begun baking bread at least twice a week, finding the process as fun as it is a pleasure not having to buy inferior bread from the market. I&#8217;ve also used resources such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breadtopia.com\/\">Breadtopia.com<\/a> to refine my recipe and experiment with different ingredients. It&#8217;s given me the confidence to try more complex recipes.<\/p>\n<p>Most, if not all, of the fundamental baking tools necessary for making no-knead bread will likely already be around your kitchen. If not, Breadtopia is one of many sources for the tools you&#8217;ll need to give it a try. I use a Lodge cast iron Dutch oven that&#8217;s been in the family for ages, a very cool tool. The web offers many resources regarding no-knead breadmaking, and I hope Cool Tools readers will share their favorites in the comments, but the NYT video is the best I&#8217;ve seen, especially as a starting point for novices, thanks to its utter simplicity.<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breadmaking for nonbakers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4156"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8801,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156\/revisions\/8801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}