As a confirmed anti-unitasker, I am bewildered that anyone with a microwave oven would think of giving house-room to a special box for proofing yeast bread---even one that folds up for storage. Yeast bread-in-progress seems to love the warm, moist atmosphere inside my microwave oven. I set a Pyrex baking dish with 2” sides on the floor of the microwave. Of course the oven is turned off. I fill the baking dish with boiling water, place a wire rack on top of the baking dish and set my bowl of yeast dough on top of that. Then I close the door of the microwave oven and wait for the dough to leap into action. With the help of nice, fresh KAF instant yeast, I rarely have to wait more than 30 minutes for the dough to double, becoming bubbly and fragrant. I repeat this, with freshly boiled water, for the second rise, if my recipe calls for one. We gave never had better, higher loaves---all with no extra expense. Be sure to mop the inside of the microwave to remove the condensation at the end of the exercise.

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