How to bake a great loaf of homemade bread (Recipe & Technique)

This is a video on how I make my homemade bread. The recipe and technique are completely covered in this video. This method I've developed is very easy and consistently turns out beautiful loaves of bread every time. Here's the recipe written out: 1. Mix together in mixing bowl: 1 Cup of Warm water, 1/8 tsp. Salt, 3 tbsp Sugar (heaping), 1 tsp. Red Star Active Dry Yeast. Stir in mixing bowl until disolved. 2. On top of the liquid mixture add 3 Cups of Bread Flour. (Do not stir in!) 3. Add 1 1/2 tbsp of vegetable oil to the top of the Bread Flour. 4. Mix all ingredients together in the mixer with a bread hook. Keep mixing until the dough forms and tries to climb up the the bread hook. You may have to scrape the sides of the mixer as you mix and/or add a little more water/four (just a pinch) to get the dough to ball up. You want a dough ball that is not too sticky or too dry. The dough should be moist, but not so much that it sticks to the mixing bowl or the bread hook, or your fingers. 5. Remove the bread hook from the dough, but leave the dough in the mixing bowl. Cover the bowl opening with plastic and secure it with a rubber band (make the bowl air-tight. 6. Heat the oven to its lowest setting and then turn it off (you want the oven to be just slightly warm.) Place the covered dough in the oven and let rise for 30 minutes. 7. At the end of the first 30 minute rise period, remove from oven and knead the dough in the mixer with the bread hook again. 8. Remove the dough ...