No Bread

It seems a little early in the project to be running into dough that doesn't even make it into the oven. Or maybe now it's the exact right time now that I think about it. No knead bread will not be getting baked today for two reasons.

1- The oven door isn't fixed. Silly me for thinking appliance repair could assess and repair on the same day! Crazy!

2- The dough looks wrong. The woman's day article includes photos and my dough doesn't really look like it was active enough. They also talk about the moisture content alot and I'm guessing that I didn't add enough water. I may also have a room that's too cool. I think I'll just let it keep working on the counter now that I can't bake it. See what happens, maybe it's just slow. Of course this will just be for learning purposes. Not sure why - see #1.

Instead of actually doing any baking I just did more learning today. Found a book on Amazon that give explicit instructions about using the food processor to make whole grain dough. Did I not mention that I don't have a KitchenAid stand mixer? I'm going to give the food processor a shot before spending $200+ on a mixer. That said, I love shopping for kitchen gadgets and may give in eventually just for the fun of it.
I also found that King Arthur flour does baking lessons. Might see if I can make that work. They even got some online ones. Thanks to Howie for directing me to the site.

Maybe next time I'll have actually baked some bread!