How to Make Homemade Bread
This is a very simple recipe for bread. I learned this recipe about a year ago, and I completely stopped buying bread since then. It’s ridiculously easy to make, and the texture, taste, and smell is amazing. BREAD 3 cups flour 1 tsp salt 3/4 tsp yeast* 1 1/2 cups water ——————— *yeast: I used bread machine yeast in this video. If you use fresh yeast, use 7 grams, or about a teaspoon, and dissolve it in the water before you add the water to the flour. If you use regular yeast, dissolve it first, too. It helps if the water is lukewarm. ——————- Mix together the dry ingredients. Add water, slosh around. Mix into a fairly uniform ball. Cover and let rise for 3-5 hours. (if you want, you can put it in a WARMED oven – BUT TURN THE OVEN OFF – with pots of boiling water in the oven. This way, the yeast has the perfect environment to grow.) Once risen, turn out on to a floured surface. Roll into ball shape. Preheat a heat resistant pot with a cover at 450. Put the bread dough in the hot pot. Put it in the oven at 450 for 30 mins, then remove the cover. Finally, bake for 20 more minutes in the 450 oven. Cool on cooling rack. Enjoy hot with butter and jam. Variations: roll in cracked wheat, flax seeds, poppy, sesame seeds. Add in with the dry ingredients: herbs, olives, nuts, raisins, dried tomatoes, cheese. Substitute 1/4 cup of water with molasses. Double the recipe, half the recipe. Listen to Rush instead of King Crimson while making the bread.
25 Responses to How to Make Homemade Bread
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can i make this in a pan not dutch oven?
delicatelilflower00
October 18, 2011 at 10:34 am
that is the weirdest oven i have ever seen! it looks like a microwave!
PandasRuleify
October 18, 2011 at 10:37 am
if you put a little flour on your hands then the dough wont stick when you knead it.
dazmaster22
October 18, 2011 at 11:25 am
Well it looked pretty good to me, at least you enjoyed eating it. The first loaf of bread that I made was so dense I ended up using it for a door stop. The second was not much better. The third I actually was able to eat. My problem has been getting the dough to rise enough where it’s soft and light, not heavy and dense like grandma’s banana bread.
RighteousBigot4u
October 18, 2011 at 12:05 pm
So, if I put it in the oven with the boiled water after preheating it, how long do I leave it? I’m a bit mixed up from your description below the video.
girl112791
October 18, 2011 at 1:03 pm
so glad i came across this.
id hook you up with free flour if i were a flour manufacturer.
haha. good to see so many people stoked about making bread.
phriesen
October 18, 2011 at 1:05 pm
can you make one without a crust?
iwatchedyourvideo101
October 18, 2011 at 1:20 pm
Wow great video, very thorough… nice…
richgar319
October 18, 2011 at 2:11 pm
Awesome vid joe…, your little oven is so adorable!
Creenuk
October 18, 2011 at 2:23 pm
cant beater widda stick by!
nexus6ix
October 18, 2011 at 2:33 pm
never seen bread made this way but it looks fab..going to make it same way as you have done it..will let you know how mine turns out…
cydneylola123
October 18, 2011 at 2:48 pm
omg no idea
govecomm
October 18, 2011 at 3:39 pm
I make bread almost every day now because my family eats it so fast.
astarothification
October 18, 2011 at 4:39 pm
ure oven is weird
Bubs105
October 18, 2011 at 5:29 pm
I HAVE DRY ACTIVE YEAST AND HAD TO ACTIVATE IT WITH WATER HOW MUCH DO I NEED TO PUT IT MY YEAST MASKES 150GRAM PLZ MESSAGE BK
beckybingo
October 18, 2011 at 5:58 pm
swEET, this recipe rocks!! can’t beat it with a stick : )
techsandiaz
October 18, 2011 at 6:13 pm
King Crimson + fresh bread = ?
uzimonkey
October 18, 2011 at 6:35 pm
“If you could smell this bread friend, what a smell the bread would tell”. Hahaha, that’s a hell of a quote
TurdFerguson98
October 18, 2011 at 7:17 pm
@riboflavinjoe lol nice comeback. i enjoyed your vid and recipe. many thanks.
neeraj2608
October 18, 2011 at 7:21 pm
Thanks for the cooking tips for making bread, youre so funny! 🙂
GirlPoppet
October 18, 2011 at 7:46 pm
That shit was crunchy… or is that just the crust?
firemage10101
October 18, 2011 at 8:24 pm
@riboflavinjoe also the hot pot business…you don’t want a crust to form right away as it’s the crust that stops the bread expanding.
khasab
October 18, 2011 at 8:25 pm
@riboflavinjoe no the yeast produces alcohol and CO2. it’s the co2 that makes it rise. the alcohol evaporates in baking. But it would look a lot better and have risen better if you had kneaded it. All that oven water stuff is unecessary.
khasab
October 18, 2011 at 8:59 pm
CAN I USE BARLEY AND OAT FLOUR FOR THIS BREAD?
PLZ REPLAY AS SOON AS YOU CAN THANX
once2ice
October 18, 2011 at 9:22 pm
my big bro worked in a pizza place once.if or whn he gets home i’m making him help me make this XD
Wolffang1996Hyano
October 18, 2011 at 9:36 pm