The great thing about making your own bread is that as long as you have salt, yeast, flour, water, and an oven, you can fit your bread recipe to the equipment t

The great thing about making your own bread is that as long as you have salt, yeast, flour, water, and an oven, you can fit your bread recipe to the equipment that you have. Getting a great loaf at home takes some practice (my first loaf came out like a biscuit, it was horrible). But after a few repetitions you can get pretty consistently good results. I'm not as much of a sourdough person, and I don't have a dough machine or stand mixer, but I have a hand-kneaded recipe that I like. I don't have a dutch oven, so I use a stockpot instead. And so on. There's tons of info online, and it gets easy and more consistent with practice.