However, the ingredients to make a single loaf of bread -- flour, yeast, salt ... we've found the best bread machines worth the counter space, especially our top pick from Cuisinart.

Baking bread with wild yeast is sort of like baking with sourdough - in that we are cultivating a colony of wild unknown yeast and bacteria in order to bake bread. But in most cases the wild yeast ...

The yeast microbes had been asleep for more than 5,000 years, buried deep in the pores of Egyptian ceramics, by the time Seamus Blackley came along and used them to bake a loaf of bread.