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What's your favorite "warm spot" to let your dough rise?

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Grant Bakes

What's your favorite "warm spot" to let your dough rise?

Hey bakers! I have a question for anyone who is kind enough to answer! Where is your favorite warm spot to let your dough rise (when you're specifically looking for a warm place)?

Is it on top of your fridge? In your turned-off oven? Next to a heater? Something else?

I'm doing a little research for my blog and I'd love to know where home bakers go when they're looking for a warm spot in their house. Thanks so much in advance for your answers!

Best,

Grant

P.S. I know cold-proofing is amazing - but that's a topic for a different day.

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GaryBishop

Oven heated to about 90F. 

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Yeast_Mode

Brod and Taylor when I want a specific temperature.

Oven with the oven light on when I'm not worried about being precise.

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GlennM

Toaster oven on proof setting (80 degrees)

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GlennM

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Benito

Brot and Taylor proofing box.  It would be challenging and slow to try to bake sourdough without it during a Canadian winter.

Benny

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justkeepswimming

Most often inside our over-the-stove microwave, with the light that illuminates the cook surface turned on. It gets to 82-84F. 

And on rare occasion in the garage, when it's ~ 85-90F and I need to use the microwave. 😉

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Sabina

My dehydrator which I only got this Christmas is now my go-to spot for dough-rising. At first I was worried that its lowest temperature of 95F was too high, but that hasn't been a problem. It is, unfortunately, too small to fit my sheet pans, roasting pan, or pizza pans.

Other warm places I use:

- My oven, after heating it up for about 10 minutes at 145F and then shutting it off and leaving the light on.

- If it's summer, outside.

- Our smallest bathroom with the heat cranked up.

- Our larger bathroom in which my husband has already cranked up the heat to brew beer or wine.

- A covered roasting pan with a mug of occasionally refreshed just-heated-to-boiling water.

- A pot of water with a sous-vide heating the water.

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RichieRich

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Grant Bakes

This is an amazing set up!

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Gadjowheaty

Not very pretty, but a cooler with an Inkbird controller and seed germination (warming) mat.  

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VickiePNW

Where the modem and DVR reside. Typically, it is 10º warmer than room temp inside the glass doored cabinet. 

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alcophile

My gas oven with the light on equilibrates to ≈85 °F.

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jzelten

In the summer, my garage gets hot enough even early in the morning to be perfect for bread, croissants, etc. 

But I need a new solution now that it's fall.