After last week's success with bread, I decided to try one more time. Nothing special. Just white bread. Followed a video super tightly, ignoring time suggestions and going by matching what the video was showing.

I actually overworked the dough twice. I threw it out each time and started over - if this is going to be my last loaf of homemade bread, I may as well just burn up the ingredients. The third time seemed to come out okay and matched the video I was watching.

I let it rise twice, again, ignoring the time suggestions and going by poke test and doubled sizes. Baked it as the video said, again ignoring the time suggestions and going by seeng if it matched the video.

And it's still too dense and super chewy.

So I'm finally done with bread making. It's been two years, and whatever I'm doing wrong, I can't figure it out. While I can make a pretty decent pastry bread, I'll leave the loaf-of-bread-making sorcery to the professionals and buy bread from here out.