More Bread + Inside Out

I cleaned up a bit today, but you wouldn’t know it by looking at my apartment. I consolidated my bookshelf storage boxes, so now only one of them contains random crap, as opposed to all four of them. I found a receipt that I will need soon, and I also put my CDs in order and found some old mix CDs that I made years ago, when I made mix CDs every few weeks. I found some awesome long lost songs that I forgot existed. The best find was “Inside Out” by Culture Beat. I listened to that on repeat on my run tonight. It’s a great running song. I don’t really like the parts where the guy talks, but other than that it’s great.

I’m trying out the basic recipe from “Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes A Day“. It’s been blogged about endlessly and I haven’t been too interested in trying it since I’m quite happy with the no-knead method, but I saw the book at the library, so I checked it out. I followed the recipe, except for using the proper size plastic container, so this happened in the fridge, while I wasn’t looking:

I wasn’t going to bake anything tonight, but I figured I better make room in the container, so I’m baking a loaf tonight. It’s supposed to sit out for 40 minutes before entering the oven:

It’s in the oven now. I’m using the No-Knead covered pot method for the baking. I don’t want to mess around with water trays to create steam.

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It’s done now, but I have to let it cool before I eat any. It looks pretty good, but it doesn’t smell as nice as the no-knead bread. This smells a bit too yeasty.

UPDATE: It tastes really good. I’m very pleased with the results and will make this again. I’m going see what happens when I reduce the amount of yeast.