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title: Bread dough for lazy boys
date: 2023-01-22 
tags:
  - cooking
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### INGREDIENTI

- flour (ideally bread flour but if you don't have it, it's not the end of the world)
- water
- salt
- yeast (i use the little dried packet stuff)

### RATIOS

To start measure the weight of flour; this is what we'll work from. You can now work out how much of the other ingredients you need using these ratios:

- 65% water
- 2% salt
- 0.5% yeast (this amount doesn't particularly matter, as long as it's in this ballpark)

So if we used 1kg of flour for example, the recipe would look like this:

- 1000g flour
- 650g water
- 20g salt
- 5g yeast

### STEPS

1. Put all the ingredients in a bowl nad mix until the flour is hydrated (you do not need to knead it, just bring it together).
2. Put in the fridge to slowly proof for at least a day.
3. Remove dough as required from the fridge and place in desired baking vessel (you don't have to bake it all at once, I sometimes make a big batch and bake multiple things over the cours of a few days).
4. Proof in vessel for an additional hour or so at room temperature.
5. Bake!

### SOME HELPFUL RESOURCES

- [Jim Lahey no knead bread](https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/11376-no-knead-bread)
- [Kenji video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWbl3Sr2y1Y)
- [Ragusea pizza video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4ABOKdHEUs)
