clean bowl to raise bread dough?
Tue, 08/18/2009 - 19:52
I make all the bread we eat, and have streamlined the process to work with whatever I have on hand the day of baking. I like things easy, and I've never met a recipe I could follow as written! I've learned you don't need to scald the milk, plus or minus an egg is okay (just adjust the fat accordingly), and that wildly adjusting the raising time isn't always a bad thing.
So, today as I was making my bread, I wondered if it's really necessary to wash and grease the (KitchenAid) bowl in which I mixed and kneaded the dough before I let the dough rise. What would happen if I just left the dough in the mixing bowl and covered it up to rise? I didn't try it, but wonder if any of you have?
I make all the bread we eat, and have streamlined the process to work with whatever I have on hand the day of baking. I like things easy, and I've never met a recipe I could follow as written! I've learned you don't need to scald the milk, plus or minus an egg is okay (just adjust the fat accordingly), and that wildly adjusting the raising time isn't always a bad thing.
So, today as I was making my bread, I wondered if it's really necessary to wash and grease the (KitchenAid) bowl in which I mixed and kneaded the dough before I let the dough rise. What would happen if I just left the dough in the mixing bowl and covered it up to rise? I didn't try it, but wonder if any of you have?
That's what I do when I mix the dough I get it to the right consistency then I form a ball and use that to gather all the little bits stuck on the bowl etc hold the dough in my hand and then I give the bowl a little spray of oil (but this isn't necessary most of the time only for very sticky doughs) place the dough ball back in the bowl and cover with plastic and a teatowel this holds in the heat better never had a problem. On the odd occasson I had a little piece of the risen dough stick to the bowl put it is very easy to remove so no real problem.
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Oh, what an excellent response!
I don't wash, clean, and then oil the bowl to rise. Way too much extra effort for me! I just put a little oil on my hands and throw the ball of dough around then put it in the 'floury' bowl of the mixer.
Once it's risen, it usually isn't stuck(I also just flip the bowl upside down rather than risk 'breaking' the rise by pulling it out of the bowl. It usually just 'pops' right out as soon as it is upside down.
Yup! No clean bowl needed. It's working great in the dirty bowl, and I have one less dish to wash today. Hooray for that, since we're leaving on a camping trip in only a few hours.
(I'm fighting off the urge to make some marshmallows--I'm so inspired after the mallow cookies!)
I also don't clean the bowl. However I did use to have problems with the dough rising in the past and that's because I wasn't leaving the dough in a warm enough place. Now I put it in an oven that has been preheated to a very low heat and have turn the heat off so that the dough is just getting the residual heat. That has made a huge difference.
Kent
I usually clean the bowl, but only because I find that it's much easier to wash it out immediately after mixing the bread; if I don't, I always seem to have hardened bits of bread dough stuck on the sides of the bowl that take a lot of effort to remove.
I don't wash, clean, and then oil the bowl to rise. Way too much extra effort for me! I just put a little oil on my hands and throw the ball of dough around then put it in the 'floury' bowl of the mixer.
Once it's risen, it usually isn't stuck(I also just flip the bowl upside down rather than risk 'breaking' the rise by pulling it out of the bowl. It usually just 'pops' right out as soon as it is upside down.
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