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Half of the kneaded dough

This is the half of the dough that I will work with today. The rest went into the freezer. The volume seems to be a little greater than .5L.

 

I have never worked with a dough this wet before. I am estimating this is roughly between 70%-75% hydration.

 

I kneaded the entire mass of dough with a wet scraper for 5 minutes or so. I saw a big difference in it's smoothness and structure in the first couple minutes. After that I didn't see it coming into the malleable kind of doughs I'm familiar with but since I wasn't making progress I divided it into 2 parts, put them both in oiled tubs, left this one at room temp and put the other one into the freezer.

 

I will stretch & fold this dough at 20 minute intervals over the next hour. I'm interested in how that improves the structure and texture of the unbaked dough.

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Uploaded on January 10, 2014
Taken on January 10, 2014