Kneading bread dough is an essential for almost every bread recipe, but what does this physical act do to encourage the dough to proof and rise?

Once you start making it, you'll understand why. The satisfaction of simply poking the no-knead dough is second to none. This Italian bread is surprisingly easy to make. The most challenging ...

No-knead bread is a minimalist bread making method that took the world by storm in 2006, when the technique, developed by Jim Lahey, was widely publicized in an article in the New York Times.

"But lo and behold, you can make bread through allowing the dough to form the gluten as opposed to having to work it. And that's always existed." Lahey's life changed in 2006, when Mark Bittman ...

A sprinkle of coarse salt over the dough before it's covered in the pot will bake crunchy salt into the crust. Bittman recently revisited no-knead bread with a speedier four-hour version that gets ...