Easy bread for the busy boffin by 0014 (@becausesubmissionsarebroke)

Listen up!

Want that delicous taste of homemade bread but dont have the time or skill to devote to it? Ever start something then go on a 12 hr binge and forget about it? Well this is the bread for you!

Ingredients:

3 cups all purpose flour

1 ½ teaspoons salt

½ teaspoon instant yeast

1 ½ cups room temperature water

Slam all those bad boys into a bowl and mix well. Now I’ve had this dough look a little wet and ive made this with the dough looking a little dry. Both turn out fine, but if you’re nervous add a couple tablespoons of water to the dry dough. Take some plastic wrap and cover the top of the bowl. Bam! Go work on whatever you need to. Let that puppy sit for at least 12 hrs but you can leave it for longer if you forget about it. I’ve left it for up to 20+ hrs in the past, whatever your feeling is fine. Once you remember about your dough heat the oven to 450° F or 232° C. Take a cookie sheet, pizza pan, a dutch oven or a cast iron pan (just something big enough for the dough) and grease it/coat with flour. Whatever you’ve got on hand, if you’re like me your cast iron pan is already seasoned so you dont need to add anything. Tip the dough out on to a surface that youve dumped a handful of flour on so it wont stick. Just use the same tool you used to mix the dough to pry it all out from the bowl. DONT KNEAD IT! Just shape it in a vaguely round shape, taking the rest of the flour and coating the outside so your fingers won’t stick to it. Slap that sucker into what ever you’re cooking it in. Once the oven is hot slide it in. Cook for ~45 mins until goldeny brown. If your oven is flakey like mine, keep it in there for ~1hr, test it by smacking it with the flat of a knife and if it sounds hollow its probably done. Pull it out and enjoy.