No-knead whole wheat sandwich bread
This makes enough for 2 loaves. Halve the recipe for a single loaf.
Equipment
- Huge bowl
- Small bowl for extra flour to work with
- Tea towel or plastic shower cap
- Spatula
- Whisk
- Parchment paper
- Scale
- 2 loaf pans
Ingredients
- 933g whole wheat flour
- 28g vital wheat gluten
- 15g yeast (I use SAF)
- 24g salt
- 977g water
- Extra white flour for dusting and countertop etc.
Instructions
- Combine dry ingredients in huge bowl, whisk together.
- Add water, use spatula to combine. It will seem too wet.
- Place tea towel or plastic shower cap over huge bowl.
- Put dough mixture into oven on proofing setting for 2 hours.
- After 2h, remove dough from oven.
- Line each loaf pan with parchment paper - it's totally fine if it comes up over the sides.
- Pour a good deal of all-purpose flour into a bowl so you can grab more as you need it.
- Watch this video about shaping a loaf
- VERY LIBERALLY flour your countertop and your hands. THE DOUGH IS VERY WET.
- Rip half the dough out of the huge bowl and put it on the very floury counter.
- Do your best to shape it according to that YouTube video - you will need A LOT of flour to keep things workable because dough is very wet.
- Place shaped loaf into the loaf pan.
- Repeat with the remaining dough and remaining loaf pan.
- Wash your hands and the huge bowl (I find cold water helps with sticky dough).
- Put plastic wrap or shower cap over loaf pans and place in fridge.
- Wait at least 6h, up to idk...72h?
- When you're ready to bake a loaf:
- Pull it out of the fridge and preheat your oven to 450.
- Place pan in oven when preheated. Bake for 30-40m until thermometer measures internal temp as 180.
- Wait for bread to fully cool before cutting! If you wait a full 24h, it will be easier to make thinner slices.