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Scruffy1

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4. My hands have never failed me.
Tue Jul 23, 2024, 10:40 PM
Jul 2024

I have been making bread for over sixty years. The hands feel the dough. It's part of the joy. My last house had a pull out kneading board that had been used so much you could see the wear between the grain. Now I just use a plastic cutting board on my counter. Unless you have a serious disability in the hands I place bread machines with the Joe Namath hot dog cooker. My son is a chef and he used as big kneading machine at work. He tells me that water temperature is crucial to control the growth of the yeast. He's the only one that can get good dough where he works because he uses ice water. Wasn't a problem in Minnesota but our tap water comes out of the tap at over 30 degrees centigrade in the summer in El Paso.

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