I read (somewhere on KA) that the dutch oven technique works well for no-knead recipes because the no-knead dough tends to be relatively moist. It is the dough itself that supplies the steam inside the dutch oven, as opposed to a steam injector in a commercial oven. Kneaded dough recipes, on the other hand, tend to be drier, so there might not be as much steam to trap.

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