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Bread experiment progress: dough is completed and will proof overnight at room temperature. Significantly less yeast than normal, likewise much less salt (about a quarter of supermarket bread). Very curious if this works; if it does, I will have tasty and very low-salt bread!

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Oops, burned the top because it expanded more quickly than expected in the oven - but otherwise it seems to be a success! It tastes basically like bread, which is the success condition given the low amount of salt

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@joepie91 Wait, you put salt in bread? I... Have I been making bread wrong this whole time?

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@rallias This is a very typical thing to do, at least for yeast-based bread; it serves a function for the flavor, but also makes the dough less likely to break down during kneading and baking, AIUI.

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@rallias (I ended up researching this for a while and the conclusion seemed to be "you need some amount of salt for dough integrity, but nowhere near as much as people typically use")

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