Ceaseless Student

So. This story starts with me watching anime.

There was this one episode of Yakitate Japan where Azuma shows you how to make bread (namely Japan #2). The neat part of the bread is that it’s baked in a rice cooker. In the show they describe the bread as “fluffy, fluffy, fluffy” and “so easy that even the producers can make it.” Judging by this: I suck…

So I started by making the dough. Here’s the recipe translated to American units (roughly).

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• 3 Cups Bread Flour
• 4 tsp Butter
• 5 tsp Sugar
• 7 tsp Milk
• 3/4 Cup Water
• 2 tsp Dry Yeast
• 1 tsp Salt

1. Add to rice cooker: flour, sugar, salt, yeast dissolved in water, water, milk. Knead
2. Add butter. Knead
3. After you’ve kneaded it enough that it sops being sticky, let it sit somewhere warm for 1 hr (first fermentation).
4. Drop the dough from about 2 feet to get rid of the gas. Thn, let it sit somewhere warm for 1 hr (second fermentation).
5. Bake it for 1 hr in the rice cooker.
6. Flip it, and bake it for 1 hr.
7. Flip it and bake it for 1 hr.
8. Eat.

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Ao things were going well for a while.

I made the dough…
I let it sit…
It fermented…And then things went downhill from there. I started baking it and took my evening nap. Then I woke up to see that the rice cooker was all steamed up and the bread was smelling breadish. “Good,” I thought. I was wrong, but that is a story for another post. Or probably more than just one more - this is a long story.