Most recipes I've seen for no-knead bread calls for pre-heating it in the oven which I did many times. Came out good but I don't know how you can drop a fully inflated risen loaf into it without it deflating. Maybe with it in parchment paper and being careful?
Now I just let it rise in the cast iron dutch oven on one of our heat registers and then toss into the oven and bake longer (haven't burned or over baked yet) think IMHO it comes out just a little bit better.
Edit; I've also just preheated the oven on low, 100-200?? with dutch oven in and let the bread rise in it then raised temp to bake. I've also just set it on top in the back where the heat comes out (gets hot). Trial and error , haven't had a fail yet.
IDK? how everyone else's using all purpose flour and no knead bread turns out ??
But I find it good, but not like real good real bread. It's crusty and dense, to me it tastes more like english muffin bread. Goes quick here, I sometimes don't even get any, kids slather the butter on it and gobble it down...
I refrigerate the dough for at least 3 hours, up to 2 weeks. Let it rise on the counter on the pizza peel with a bunch of cornmeal on it for 40 minutes. It doesn't rise much. Then I slide it into the oven with a cup of water. That's when it rises.
And yeah, the dog is bored. It only happens when we're gone. We give her a bunch of treats/things to do/things to chew and it seems like she does them, then decides to destroy something, then falls asleep.
I went to sewing last night, and it was a chapstick and a bottle of eye lubrication drops when I got back.
Adding I threw her football before I left until she could barely walk. She got her dinner, then an entire can of wet cat food (she loves cat food) while I was leaving, thinking she'd food coma.