If it's an inch high then you did something wrong.
Obviously. It had way too much water in it.
The no-knead bread is a perfectly good recipe but, in my experience, it
gives you a certain "type" of bread and nothing else. Anyway, what's so
hard about kneading?
There's that exquisite arthritic pain in my knuckles, for starters. I've
been using a bread machine for a few years, but I'm not happy with the
texture of that either.
Dawn