Bread

Overall I think the yeast bread unit very smoothly. When making the pretzels the part we had difficulty with was the shaping of the pretzels. Some pretzels were massive while others were tiny so it was difficult to get them to bake in the oven all at the same rate. All of the breads in this unit required blooming of the yeast this means we let the yeast sit in a bowl of WARM water. The ideal temp is measured on your wrist, not your hand. All the bread we made was delicious except one bread we didn't add the salt to which, for me, completely ruined the whole experience. That bread was saved with loads of jam. The pizza was by far my favorite. The grilling was the best part and gave the pizza a great look and taste. I wish I was able to eat cheese because the vegan cheese was really nasty. The no knead bread was great, (when we added salt) but getting it to be in a perfect ball was probably the hardest part of the entire bread unit. I think we had too much flour on our table so we were getting little to no traction so it just wasn't rolling properly. The only major errors in our bread unit are easily fixable with just some careful reading of the recipe. I'm happy with the bread unit. -Emma B.