No Knead to Worry - Easiest Bread in the World

I first saw a recipe for no knead bread in a Mother Earth News magazine.  I tried that recipe and the dough was just too wet for me, but I loved the idea that over time the yeast would essentially knead the bread for you and that it was really forgiving around the time it was rising - 12-18 hours, give or take.  I ended up testing a recipe that was recommended to me by a colleague (thank you Cassie) and we did an experiment with traditional and quick rise yeast.  You couldn't tell the loaves apart. So use whatever you've got.

The recipe was made popular online by Mark Bittman (aka the Minimalist) and Jim Lahey (Sullivan Street Bakery), although there are a ton of videos about this and magazine articles going back decades.  I mixed and matched from the videos and articles and this is what's worked best  

Recipe and directions:

1. 3 cups of flour
   
2. 1/4 t yeast (heaping)
3. 1 t salt
   
4. mix
   
5. 1 1/2 - 1 3/4 cups water
   
6. stir it all up until combined, it looks wet and shaggy
   
7. let sit 12-18 hoursish
   
8. turn out onto well floured surface
   
9. pat out into a rectangle
   
10. fold over 3 times and leave on floured baker's couche, seam side down
    
11. let rest 30 min to 1 hr (this was left out of the video but is a necessary step imho)
    
12. preheat cast iron dutch oven at 500° while dough is resting
    
13. drop dough very carefully into extremely hot dutch oven
    
14. put on lid and put into oven for 30  minutes
    
15. remove lid for 15-20 minutes - open away from you to avoid the steam inside

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