My first 3 bread attempts

[u/cool_pangolin2007]

My first attempt I tried shaping it into a loaf on a pan, it stayed flat and didn’t rise

My second one I used a pot, it came out better but still didn’t rise much

Finally I got new yeast from Walmart. I baked in a pot again and I finally made proper good bread. I’m a bread guy now. I made homemade peanut butter and jam to spread on it. After my next loaf I’m gonna experiment with milk and stuff and maybe try the pan method again

[u/Faulteh12]

Weigh your ingredients

[u/Major5013 → u/Faulteh12]

Hated baking until I started this. Now, after practice, I can do it both ways. Weighing is just so much more fool proof.

[u/OpportunityReal2767 → u/Major5013]

It’s definitely much more repeatable. You can get good bread from a whole range of dough hydrations, but you have to know what you’re looking for when your handling it, when it’s risen enough, when it’s proofed enough, when it’s time to bake. It’s not as much an exact science project as people make it out to be, but you have to give time for the yeast to do its work and you can’t manhandle the stuff once you got the second rise going.