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Dough sticking to floured brotform

Bob Marley's picture
Bob Marley

Dough sticking to floured brotform

The final dough is 70% hydration overall and 20% levain overall.

Once the overnight levain is mixed with water and the remaining flour, it autolyses for about an hour.  It's kneaded a couple of minutes and bulk fermented for two hours.  French folded (stretch and fold) and allowed to rise another hour.  Removed from the bowl it's shaped into a "boule" and allowed a 20 minute rest.  It's then finally shaped into a batard and placed into a banneton floured with AP and allowed to proof/rise for 1-2 hours.  Upon inverting the dough onto the peel, the dough had stuck bigtime to the banneton and I was able to salvage most of it into a real crooked looking loaf of bread.

To avoid the sticking problem, should I have done an additional french fold or two with an hour interval between each one???

The banneton was lightly sprayed with water then dusted.  Funny the previous SD loaf I made didn't stick when rye flour was used for dusting.

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PetraR

Did you spray the bowl just before you sprinkled the flour in?

I use AP flour but also Semolina Flour before I put my bread in, mine does never stick.

I also flour the top of the Dough before I put it in the banneton seam side up and flour the Seamside , than I proof the dough.

Bob Marley's picture
Bob Marley

Yes, flour was added to the banneton right after spraying.

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PetraR

I was thinking, I can of course be wrong * when you spray the basket right before you add the flour, the flour you used to add will get kind of doughy after a while and will stick to the sticky dough?

I never used water on my bannetons, I just use AP flour and Semolina and I had never anything sticking, not even wet dough.

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dabrownman

the basket.  Nothing sticks to rice flour,  It comes in 2 kinds.  They both work but I prefer the non glutinous version.  Tapioca flour also works.  If I am making a really wet white bread I will lightly dust to top of the boule too belfore it goes in the basket floured side down.

The term autolyse was invented by the quite famous Professor Calvel in France.  It is mixing flour with wateradn letting it sit.  His definition was very specific.- no salt and no levain.  Once you add levain you are fermenting not autolysing

http://www.cooksinfo.com/raymond-calvel

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Calvel

Happy Baking.

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cerevisiae

I second the rice flour suggestion. I like applying mine with fine mesh strainer to get an even coating. While wheat (and rye) can work, I find rice flour has a higher success rate.

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David Esq.

You asked if there should be additional stretch and folds.  I am no expert at avoiding stickiness, but I recently noticed that when my dough was sticky, it was not ready for shaping, but that an extra stretch and fold plus time, made the dough significantly less sticky than it was. 

I know from prior experience that had I put it in the basket, it likely would have stuck like glue no matter how well floured.

Doing the stretch and folds in a glass or plastic container let me see that the dough had not formed the required tiny bubbles until, as it turned out, the stickiness had gone away.