Hi Everyone,

We live in Israel, and in the summer it's really hot and bread rises beautifully with less yeast. But in the winter, it's too cold and I can't get things to rise.

I have a gas oven, so the trick of turning your oven on a bit to warm up and putting the dough in doesn't work.

Sometimes I keep it under the blow heater, but that doesn't work well and dries it out.

The best thing is (but only if it's a sunny day) to let the dough rise inside the car!

The funny thing is that if I have bread (specifically challah) dough rising in the kitchen while it's warm from the cooking/baking, it won't rise as well as my sourdough bread!

If anyone has any good tips to offer, I'd be really grateful!

All the best,

Fran