by A.J. Coltrane
Jim Lahey’s No Knead Bread doesn’t need to be slashed.
Usually though, it comes out looking something like this:
Or these:
This is a lucky outcome, from an appearance standpoint:
But here’s what I got the first time I put it in the pot, then slashed it:
The nice thing is that the attractive slash and rise in the last photo represents a reproducible result. Note that the shape is a little more “regular” too — the bread didn’t just crack organically.
Which looks most appetising?
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Postscript: Four different photos of bread using four different photo techniques, and the last picture uses the newer camera. The first bread obviously used more flour for proofing, and the left of the twin breads used a non-preheated pot. Still, at this point the baking has a more predictable outcome than I get from the photography — there are a lot more hours invested in the baking to date.
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