Lifehack One-Minute Ciabatta Bread

Name: Lifehack One-Minute Ciabatta Bread
Prep time: 8 h
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 8 h 25 min
Yield: 12 slices, 12 serving(s)
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon salt; 1/4 teaspoon dry yeast; 2 cups warm water; 4 cups flour

Submitted by Catta

"I found this recipe on lifehack.org. I haven't tried this yet, but it looks like an easy way to impress my mother with my baking prowess while not having to actually do very much. Score!"

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Ready In:: 8hrs 25mins
Ingredients:: 4
Yields:: 12 slices
Serves:: 12

ingredients

1 teaspoon salt
¹⁄₄ teaspoon dry yeast
2 cups warm water
4 cups flour

directions

Mix warm water and yeast in a medium-sized mixing bowl.
Add flour and salt.
Use a spoon and mix your ingredients until you get a heavy batter--too thick for pancake batter and not quite thick enough to be Play-doh.
Cover bowl with handtowel and let rest at room temperature for 8-12 hours.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
While oven is preheating, flour a cookie sheet.
Slowly pour the batter onto the cookie sheet in the shape you'd like it to be. The dough is really sticky, so handshaping could be problematic.
Sprinkle any spices of your choice onto the ciabatta--dried oregano, rosemary, and basil are suggested. Then stick it in the oven.
After about 25 minutes in the oven, check on the ciabatta. Once it's golden-brown on top, take it out of the oven and set it to cool for AT LEAST ten minutes. If you don't let it cool, the ciabatta will collapse when you try to cut it and that won't impress your mother at all. So let it cool, and then cut and enjoy.