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[deird1]

I've spent some time in the last couple of years learning how to make bread. And with that has come the knowledge of how to make naan, tortillas, and so on.

Bread always seemed pretty complicated to me. The recipes go on, and on, in huge detail - and I could never quite pin down how it was supposed to work. Now I know – and I'm sharing the secret. Here it is.

Bread making goes like this:

1) Mix ingredients together.
2) Leave the yeast alone and let it do its thing.
3) Make it into a bread shape.
4) Leave the yeast alone and let it do its thing.
5) Heat it up.

That's really it.

"But there's kneading! And rising! And punching down!" you say? Yep. Otherwise known as "mixing", "letting the yeast do its thing", and "making into a bread shape". The specific hand movements are weird, and something you get better at - but the basic principle is fairly simple.

I found bread much less scary once I figured that out.

Comments

[frayadjacent]

This is accurate! I mostly make no-knead bread so, for which your description is even more complete.

[mesotablar]

warmth does help too. I think that should be an * or amendment to a step. In winter my bread all sucks because I am an iceburg person and leave all the doors and windows open to the frigid Antarctica air. I am having much more success with bread now that the nights are 20°C