Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day

Zoe and Jeff demonstrate their revolutionary technique to make bread in five minutes a day on KARE11 Showcase Minnesota with Rob Hudson.

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[axella]

As a pastry cook, I find it difficult to believe that a pastry cook wouldn't have heard of basic, no-knead bread, or refrigerating dough. The "revolutionary" thing is marketing hype, but so what?.

I am all for anything that will encourage people to have a go at making their own bread because it really can be dead-simple. I make a basic wet dough and bake in a covered hot Creuset casserole pot - voila! Perfect crusty French round loaf. So easy!

[clayaikenatemybaby]

you don't wait two weeks, you can store it for up to two weeks

[writereducator]

I've been making this four months now, making batches with five pound bags of King Arthur flour, and every loaf has been as good as anything I've ever got from a bakery or at a restaurant. You can use a pizza stone and a pan for steam or--even better--a covered dutch oven.

[1994abbygirl]

She gives the amount of flour but not the yeast and salt?? 

[wellness2u]

it obvously doesn't. i've been using their recipe for a couple of years and never had it fail yet.

[Solid5050]

Why did she chuck the salt in with the yeast? surely that would kill it and prevent it from reacting...

[writereducator]

I'm no baker but I made two loaves today on our pizza stone and it was so simple and delicious!

[Kyle Monk]

Think I may just buy the book.

The ignorance of the TV presenter made me laugh! Why do they always seem to ask questions just for the sake of it instead of ones people actually want to know the answers to?

[Rosie Heindel-Mellinger]

I bought this book because my hubby loves bread (and I suck at making it), but my bread keeps turning out flat. What am I doing wrong?

[CumulusSkies]

Before this book came out, we (mostly my hubby) made the famous Chef Leahy's "No Knead Bread" recipe, brought to the public via NYTimes' Mark Bittman. The bread was great. But then we found this book, and making terrific bread is even EASIER! If you're at all interested in making fresh bread (easily), go out and get this book. You won't be disappointed! One my favs is their brioche recipe. It's amazing!

Cheers!

[DJKJSeph]

Do your research. Salt does not kill yeast just slows it down.