>>22141477It looks good fren :) Yeah probably a shallow bigger bowl would serve you better. Honestly it looks very good for a first time. Nice colour on the crust, good crumb. I should have told you to use baking paper.
>>22141486To be honest I'm not really sure what the difference is between active and instant dry yeast. Sometimes I use instant dry sometimes I use fresh yeast.
Thanks for sharing the pics. This bread makes great french toast btw. It gets stale pretty fast but if you put plastic wrap on the crumb it will stay soft for an extra day.