How do you knead?

Answer 1

One method for kneading bread dough (once the ingredients are mixed):

# Work the dough into a ball

# Restrain one end of the dough with one hand and push the other end with the heel of the second hand away from yourself and across the work surface to stretch the dough. Do not push far enough to tear the dough. # Bring back the stretched dough with the second hand onto the area of dough in the first hand and press down firmly.

# Rotate the dough about 90 degrees and repeat until the dough is very stretchy and does not tear readily. (Usually 15 minutes of work.) One test for the readiness of the dough is that if a fingertip pressed about a cm into the dough and released the dough will bounce back most of the way.

Kneading incorporates air pockets into the dough through folding and activates the gluten proteins in the flour to bind the dough giving it strength and resilience.