January 12, 2009 - 8:53pm
Hamelman, Hand Kneading
I'm new here and have enjoyed all the great information. Thanks to everyone.
I've been a bread baker for years, starting with Amy's Bread (anyone still bake from that book? I loved many of the recipes).
I recently got Hamelman's book out of the library and almost didn't try any recipes because everything is about mixing on speed 1 or speed 2 and I'm trying to get away from using a mixer at all. But reading around here I seems that some people use Hamelman's formulas and mix and knead by hand. So any advice about how to convert the mixer speeds to hand kneading would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
--Dave