• 1. Combine Ingredients

  2. Give dough a light mix

  3. Cover dough

  4. Leave at room temperature for 8-21 hours

  5. Form the dough

  6. Let it rest one more hour covered

  7. Bake & Eat!

Ingredients

• 125 grams active bubbly starter

  12 grams salt

  350 grams water

  500 grams high quality bread flour (like Red Mill or King Arthur)

  12 grams fine sea salt

  Note: IF you are confident in the strength of your starter you can use unfed, runny-discard instead of fed, bubbly, active starter (but do it at your own risk!

Instructions

• In a bowl, combine water, starter, salt. MIX. Then add the flour and barely mix together until there are no dry spots in the dough. DO NOT knead dough.
• Cover dough with a lid (a plate works well) and let dough sit at room temperature for 9-12 hours or overnight. I usually mix the dough up just after dinner and then bake the next morning.
• After 9-12 hours on the counter, PREHEAT a dutch oven inside your oven at 450 degrees for 30-60 minutes. Use a pizza stone under the dutch oven so the bottom of the bread doesn't get too crusty and overcooked.
• Immediately after you preheat the oven, dump the dough onto a clean and lightly floured surface.

  Tuck, stretch, or roll the dough into a smooth ball. Pushing and pulling the dough in a circular motion helps shape it.
• Transfer the dough ball to a piece of parchment paper and cover dough with upside down bowl used to make the dough.

  Let dough rest under bowl for one hour (while oven heats)
• Remove bowl covering and lightly dust dough with flour. Using a sharp blade, score the dough so the steam has somewhere to escape. Scoring helps give the dough a direction to rise.

  Transfer parchment paper with dough on top into a hot dutch oven. Cover with lid and put in oven.
• Reduce heat to 400 degrees and bake, covered for 40 minutes.

  Remove lid and let the crust golden for 3-5 additional minutes.
• Remove bread from oven and put it on cooling rack. Let it cool for one hour before slicing. (slicing while warm will make the bread gummy)