{"id":36,"date":"2022-02-25T13:21:43","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T18:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sidhe.org\/blog\/?p=36"},"modified":"2022-02-25T13:21:43","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T18:21:43","slug":"lazy-bread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sidhe.org\/blog\/2022\/02\/25\/lazy-bread\/","title":{"rendered":"Lazy bread!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Preheating ovens is a waste of time<\/h2>\n

It’s snowing here today, so I figured it was an excellent day for stew and fresh crusty bread. And, as I didn’t have any fresh crusty bread it was time to make some. So I did.<\/p>\n

This is a simple 65% loaf, with 500g of flour. No big deal, pretty standard, but the thing here is I got really<\/em> lazy baking it. I’d heard that you could skip the oven\/dutch oven preheating step and just toss the loaf into the oven cold. Since the loaf had already risen well before baking I figured my worst case was an OK loaf, but… this one worked out really, really well.<\/p>\n

Baked in a 450F oven on fan, inside a french oven. (Which is just a dutch oven only without the lip on the lid to hold coals) Put the loaf into the cold pot, put the pot in a cold oven, turned on the heat, and let it go for an hour. Then I took the lid off and let it go for another 10 minutes to finish.<\/p>\n

This worked great<\/em>. Seriously, lovely loaf, the crust was all crackly while I took this pic and I’m quite looking forward to dinner and a chunk of this. I don’t think I’m going to bother preheating the oven ever again, at least not for simple lean loaves like this.<\/p>\n

Also, entirely separately, the Fellow Ode grinder in the background remains awesome. Silt-free french press coffee is lovely and my only regret is not getting a nice grinder earlier on in our communal zombie apocalypse.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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