No-Knead Bread

Culinary · about 45 minutes

You mix a dough with a wooden spoon in about four minutes, because this method lets time do the kneading instead of your arms. In the room you shape a batch that was mixed and rested in advance, and it bakes inside a covered pot while the instructor explains what the lid is doing to the crust. Everyone leaves with a loaf and a bag of dough to bake later.

No baking experience needed and no stand mixer, ever. It suits anyone who has been put off by sourdough talk and just wants bread on the table. Children like the shaping part, and are usually the ones who tear the first loaf open before it has cooled.