Easy solution. Pick up a bread maker at Goodwill for 8 bucks or so. The only things they have more of are Forman grills and ink jet printers.
Bake in your oven in a preheated covered enameled cast iron pot (A Dutch Oven bakes as good as any cloche) and you will have the best bread ever or if you are lazy just let the bread maker do its thing.
Agreed!
Have been using a $50 bread machine for 12 years, only replaced a lost paddle for a few $, and we have fresh bread without preservatives 2x/week.
Just discovered no-knead bread here:
https://www.jennycancook.com/no-dutch-oven-this-no-knead-bread-is-for-you/
Used to make sourdough bread all the time. I need to start again.
Ping: Interesting link to a bread-baking site in post 9.