If all you want is a loaf of bread the timing goes like this: - Before going to bed mix to a rough dough 500 g flour, 400 g water, 8 g salt (50% KCl works fine

If all you want is a loaf of bread the timing goes like this: - Before going to bed mix to a rough dough 500 g flour, 400 g water, 8 g salt (50% KCl works fine), 2 g dried yeast. Takes les than five minutes. - Leave it in a bowl covered overnight, takes the worker no time at all - In the morning heat put a cast iron pot and lid in the oven and heat to 250°C, takes the worker one minute - while the oven is heating take the dough and shape it into a reasonably smooth ball, takes about two minutes. - Drop the ball into the pot, put on the lid, put it back in the oven. One minute - After half an hour take off the lid. One minute - After another fifteen minutes the bread is ready. Take it out of the oven and leave on a rack to cool for half an hour. One minute of work About 11 minutes, certainly less than fifteen minutes of actual work. If you get some kind of machine to knead the dough you can do it with an elapsed time of about three hours and about the same amount of work. If you devote another ten minutes you can make a batch of twenty good sized bread rolls. I make bread rolls three or four times a week for a family of four. It's not a large fraction of my day and on Sunday when I am cooking dinner anyway it hardly adds any time at all.