Please help!- My wife is obsessed :)
Some weeks ago my wife started to bake sourdough, and I admit very nice it is too. However, I have very little interest in baking sourdough so have not taken any great notice in how she is preparing the dough other than that she always seems to be doing stretch & folds.
Anyway she has just started work and informed me this morning that I will now have to take over and wants around 8 stretch & folds per batch, 3 times a week or more which would be fine except that it limits me from my own daily routine. Previously, If we went out our dough invariably came with us so it could receive all her love and attention and I put up with that but I'm not prepared to molly coddle it as she does.
It is starting to rule and ruin our life- I suggest we do something- she says I just have to do some stretch & folds first, or we are doing something else and she wants to stop so she can do stretch & folds.
I remonstrated that most seem to do only three S&F which I could grudgingly accept but she is adamant that her recipe calls for 8 so that's what I have to do. Seriously, Please ! is there any proof that the more stretch & folds you do the better the dough is? surely someone must have done some experimentation? It's driving me nuts :(