Improvised Bread Proofer

Making that holiday bread and find that your house is too cold for quick rise? You can solve that with a little trickery.

Supplies

• Bread In Need Of Rising
• Sheet Pan Or Other Baking Vessel
• Lid Or Towel For Covering Sheet Pan Or Other Baking Vessel
• Wire Rack
• Heating Pad (or you could also use an electric blanket)

Step 1: Make Bread Dough

Have a dough that needs a rise? No where to stash it where it's warm? Put your dough in an appropriate vessel and cover it!

Step 2: Assemble the Setup

1. Take your wire rack in hand.
2. Take your heating pad in the other.
3. Place the heating pad under the wire rack on a counter.
4. Plug in and turn on your heating pad to low (or higher I guess if it's really cold).
5. Place your container of dough on the rack!

Step 3: Rise!!!!!

Let nature and heat take it's course! This little setup has bailed me out several times. This is probably a better use of a heating pad than using it as a heating pad.