Easy No Knead Bread

• total time: 4 hours 30 minutes

Ingredients

3 cups lukewarm water

1 tbs instant dry yeast

1 ½ tbs salt

6 ½ cups all purpose or bread flour

Directions

Place flour into a bowl that you have a lid for. Mix warm water (not hot), yeast and salt together then pour into flour, it does not need to sit, and mix until no dry spots.

Cover dough in plastic wrap and leave on counter for 2-3 hours until doubled in size then place in fridge with a lid. For best flavor, let sit in fridge for at least one day but is good for 14 days.

When ready to bake a loaf, take out however much dough you need (I used half the dough in this video), lightly dust with flour just enough to shape into a ball, and let rest on the counter, uncovered, for 40 mins. Slash bread with a tic tac toe shape before placing in oven.

Heat oven to 450 F with either a pizza stone or Dutch oven inside the oven. When oven is ready, place bread inside and bake for 30-40 mins on the stone or 30 mins with lid on Dutch oven and 15 mins with it off. You want it to be brown and crispy.