SymmetryrtemmyS posted:

Yeah, most storebought bread is tremendously different from homemade. A no-knead loaf can produce a super moist rustic loaf with super-open holes - the type of bread you pay $10 a loaf for. Give it a try; I'm a fan of Jim Lahey's recipe, and variations thereupon.

By the way, use bread flour. Spend the $4 for a 5' bag, and if you don't use most of it, oh well you just made a $10 loaf for $4. If you like the results, things get really cheap - you'll want to buy yeast in 2 lb blocks and freeze it (that brings the yeast cost of bread from ~$1 and change to a few cents per loaf, compared to buying packets) as well as 25 lb bags of bread flour. I recommend King Arthur Flour's unbleached bread flour, as well as their white whole wheat if you want to make whole wheat bread.