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300:. Bittman praised the bread for its "great crumb, lightness, incredible flavor enviable, crackling crust." Two years later, he noted the recipe's "immediate and wild popularity", and a 2009 cookbook described Bittman's column as "one of those recipes that literally change the culinary scene with discussions on hundreds of blogs in dozens of languages around the world."
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molecules with each other so as to produce a strong, elastic network, resulting in long, sticky strands. The automatic alignment is possible because of the wetness of the dough, which makes the molecules more mobile. Wet doughs, which use a water weight of about 75% that of the flour (hydration),
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The dough is allowed to rise, covered, for 12 to 18 hours until doubled in size and covered with bubbles, then scraped onto a floured surface, given a few folds, shaped, then allowed to rise, covered, for another hour or two. It is then dropped in a pot that has been preheated in an oven at
131:, one loaf of the bread is made by mixing 400 g (approximately 3 cups) bread flour, 8 g (approximately 1ÂĽ teaspoons) salt and 1 g (approximately ÂĽ teaspoon) instant yeast with 300 mL (approximately 1 1/3 cups) cool water to produce a 75% hydration dough.
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450 °F (232 °C). The bread is baked in the covered pot for 30 minutes and, with the lid removed, for another 15 to 30 minutes until the crust is a deep brown, then removed from the pot and allowed to cool for an hour.
124:, and bake. This lengthens the time required to produce a loaf of yeast bread, which by a kneaded method generally can be completed in three or four hours, but eliminates the requirement to knead.
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which uses a no-knead method of stored and refrigerated dough that is ready for use at any time during a 5- to 14-day period.
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Revivals of no-knead breads continue, and the earlier history is often overlooked. In 2007, Hertzberg and fellow author
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618:"No-Knead Bread: Not Making Itself Yet, but a Lot Quicker"
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described Lahey's method in his
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434:"Baking the perfect loaf of bread at home"
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559:All-Day Singing and Dinner on the Ground
258:All-Day Singin' and Dinner on the Ground
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96:Some recipes improve the quality of the
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215:The method uses a long rise instead of
562:. Daywind Music Group. Archived from
436:. Sullivan St. Bakery. Archived from
284:Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day,
33:Bread baked using the no-knead method
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587:"No need to knead - Suzanne Dunaway"
527:(9th ed.). J. and J. Pemberton.
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252:Gospel composer and song collector
542:(First ed.). Faber and Faber.
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490:Bittman, Mark (8 November 2006).
373:"Better Bread With Less Kneading"
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413:(Podcast). American Public Media
350:Gamelin, Steve (11 April 2022).
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538:Grant, Doris (1 January 1944).
90:content and a very wet dough.
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585:Harman, Nick (21 Nov 2012).
275:, and re-published in 2012
407:"Episode 553 Artisan Bread"
352:"History of No Knead Bread"
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228:History and popularization
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100:by baking the bread in a
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58:Cookbook: No-knead bread
644:Wolfert, Paula (2009).
320:; Conan, Kerri (2021).
524:The Compleat Housewife
235:The Compleat Housewife
403:Kaspe, Lynne Rossetto
219:to align the dough's
371:(23 February 2010).
652:John Wiley and Sons
458:Lahey, Jim (2009).
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819:Calcium propanoate
597:on 24 October 2013
497:The New York Times
466:. pp. 50–56.
411:The Splendid Table
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1141:Brand name breads
978:Maillard reaction
824:Dough conditioner
661:978-0-7645-7633-1
566:on 26 August 2016
473:978-0-393-06630-2
333:978-0-358-53933-9
254:Albert E. Brumley
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1059:French toast
1044:Bread pakora
1034:Bread crumbs
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998:Pre-slicing
993:Pre-ferment
915:Stand mixer
900:Farinograph
802:Ingredients
784:Whole wheat
779:White bread
749:Salt-rising
719:Brown bread
464:W.W. Norton
247:Doris Grant
240:Eliza Smith
139:Ingredients
1232:Categories
1074:Sandwiches
1039:Bread bowl
941:techniques
774:Unleavened
759:Soda bread
734:Multigrain
591:Foodepedia
444:2015-08-27
304:References
282:published
102:Dutch oven
973:Leavening
948:Autolysis
890:Bread pan
873:Equipment
764:Sourdough
744:Rye bread
729:Flatbread
260:. Author
110:en cloche
1218:Category
1069:Stuffing
1054:Croutons
1008:Steaming
988:Proofing
968:Kneading
769:Sprouted
556:(2013).
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217:kneading
129:My Bread
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925:Toaster
629:25 June
601:30 July
503:25 June
417:8 March
384:25 June
1243:Baking
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182:0.25%
116:Method
84:gluten
76:baking
1088:Other
1079:Toast
1064:Rusks
864:Water
859:Sugar
839:Flour
739:Quick
711:Types
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187:Water
160:100%
154:Flour
143:Grams
122:proof
98:crust
88:yeast
73:bread
43:Bread
1161:Buns
1027:Uses
958:Biga
910:Peel
905:Lame
880:Oven
854:Salt
849:Milk
829:Eggs
814:Barm
656:ISBN
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603:2013
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