I really enjoyed all the funny stories. My own biggest blunder was making no knead bread while away on holidays. We had rented a beachfront apartment on the Oregon coast and wanted homemade bread to have with all the fresh seafood so I packed all the ingredients in plastic bags inside the Dutch oven. I mixed up the first batch using sea water (filtered through a coffee filter ....no salt necessary) And left it overnight. The next day I put my casserole dish in the oven to preheat forgetting that I had brought another set of ingredients inside the pot. Needless to say by the time the pot was preheated the plastic bag of flour and yeast was welded to the inside of the pot. I pulled out as much as possible and was able to cook the bread since I always bake it in a parchment sling. The bread was fine ...the Dutch oven was never the same. I still use it for bread but that's all.

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