Re: No yeast Naans or Pizza base
Originally Posted by
Goldielocks
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I just cannot be bothered with the waiting and proving. An hour is enough for me
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This is a key statement Goldielocks and is the prime reason why you & I will likely never agree on bread making issues.
Making bread requires TIME. It is absolutely crucial. Saying you can't be bothered with the waiting means you aren't bothered about making good bread. It's similar to saying:
"I love daffodils but I can't be bothered waiting all that time for them to grow from their bulbs in the ground into flowers so instead I buy plastic daffodils"
As I said in an earlier post, making bread is a skill, and an art, and when you understand it, you can make bread without spending almost any time at all.
You don't like waiting 1-2 hours for doughs to rise because it's a faff and it eats into your valuable time. It means you can't go off out and do something because you need to be there when the dough becomes ready to bake.
I totally agree and understand.
But the way people bake is the problem, not the ingredients.
Let me explain how I make a really tasty Overnight White Loaf of bread in just minutes of actual doing time.
1. I mix the 4 ingredients (Flour, Water, Salt, Yeast) in a mixer for about 5 mins and then I put the mixed dough in a Tupperware box and leave on the kitchen counter (Time is 9pm)
Time taken: 5 mins
I am now free to do whatever I want with my time and life.
Next Morning 9am
2. I tip out the well risen dough which has been fermenting 12hours whilst I have been mostly asleep, shape it into a log or boule, cover it or put it in a warm place. I also switch the oven on to full.
Time taken: 3 mins
3. I make a cup of tea and some breakfast for myself, listen to the radio etc. My time.
4. After 30mins, the dough is ready and goes into the oven to bake. Bake time approx. 30 mins but that 30 mins is required for any bread baking so is not counted.
Result, one fantastic overnight fermented white loaf.
Total "Doing" time by me = approx. 8 mins.
Total "Waiting" time by me = approx. 30 mins for final rise
Like I said there is a Huuuugggeeeee misconception out there about how good bread is made and there is an abundance of old archaic "Women's Institute" style thought-process going on in which people even now still think that you have to make bread by spending arduous hours kneading dough and waiting for it to rise in 1-2 hours in an airing cupboard, just because that's the way granny always used to make it.
The processes have long since moved on. The kneading can be done in a total of 40 seconds spread over 10 min intervals and the proofing can be done over many many hours to make a far superior end result.