“Are you sitting down? Ok, good. Because what I’m about to tell you might just blow your mind: you can make a loaf of fresh, warm, homemade bread in your slow cooker.
You read that right. You don’t have to turn on the oven this summer to get your fresh bread fix — just plug in your crockpot.
When I first heard about baking bread in the slow cooker, I was skeptical. I’ve been baking bread for almost ten years, and in all that time, I’ve only pushed my oven temperature hotter when making bread.
The idea of “slow cooking” a loaf of bread seemed completely counterintuitive to me. But it only took a few bread-baking trials on a hot summer day to convince me that slow-cooked bread is a fantastic alternative when it’s too hot to turn on the oven or the oven is otherwise occupied…”
