A couple of days ago I tried once again to make bread in the Big Green Egg. For a recipe, I used my traditional easy recipe which is basically:
- 4 Cups AP flour
- 1 3/4 cups water
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1/2 tablespoon salt
- 2 1/4 teaspoons yeast (1 packet)
Mix it all together, then knead until the dough feels right, let it rise once for about an hour. Then shape it and let it rise again.
While this bread won’t win any awards (I don’t think), it works for me!
At any rate, I made the dough and dusted it with flour during the 2nd rise. With about 30 minutes to go, I lit the Big Green Egg and built a hearth that was 2 half-bricks thick in order to cook the bread directly on the brick. I wanted the BGE to get up to 550F but because of the hearth and the fact that I probably had too much ash on the bottom, it never got above 400F. I put the bread on the hearth and misted it with water. After roughly 45 minutes, the bread was ready.
I think the bread came out really well but it tasted very smoky. I’m not really sure what I can do about the smoke flavor…it’s a byproduct of the charcoal. Next time I bake, I’ll put it in a dutch oven and see how that goes.
Sorry, I don’t have any pictures this time. The bread looked pretty good too!
More to come, and with pictures next time!