Wow. I'm looking at my own comment from a year ago. Last week I made 34+ pounds of this over Friday even and Saturday, all by hand with no mixer. The 7th & 8th grades at our synagogue made challah as a fundraiser and I made and prepped all the dough before hand. We were not making round loaves in pans but free form braids. The first couple of batches I made used 33 ounces of KAF bread flour and were very soft. I divided each batch of dough into 7 ounce balls to be rolled into ropes. I labeled the soft batches so I would know when the kids were using them. After my first two batches I upped the flour to 36 ounces for a stiffer, easier to work dough.The soft, 33 ounce dough was a challenge for the kids but we added in a touch of extra flour, made the ropes and braided them. We ended up with 27 loaves of challah each about 19 ounces after baking. I made a batch while we were waiting for the second rise so the kids saw me make a batch of bread dough with just a bowl and a scraper and they know it doesn't require a $250 stand mixer. It was a fun day.

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