Should I add flour to dough if I already weighed the amount?
I am using this recipe for pizza dough, and I received some seasoned advice from other members of this site to use a precise kitchen scale for weighing the flour and water. The question is, if I already precisely measured for weight ie 1LB flour and 11 oz water - do I forgo following the direction to add more flour as needed?
As you knead, add more flour or water as needed to produce a ball of dough that is smooth, supple, and fairly tacky but not sticky.
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Once you have learned to recognize good dough consistency by feel, you might decide to add more flour. This is because even when you weigh, your texture can be influenced by small changes in the gluten content in your brand and batch of flour (it is a natural product after all, and the difference between 11 and 11.5% is already noticeable) and by the humidity of your storage room. Before you have learned to recognize the perfect texture by feel, only use additional flour to prevent sticking to utensils, unless it feels terribly wet and flows everywhere (but then you probably measured wrong).
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Can you add flour to already risen dough?
Adding flour or water to dough after it has risen is not advised, but it is possible if it hasn't risen for too long. The ingredients become harder to incorporate because the dough is already formed, and it has to be kneaded again which could damage the structure built when rising.What if dough is too wet?
If your recipe has you start with the yeast in the water (needed for cake yeast, but some converted recipes also suggest it for dry types of yeast) then you should be adding flour to the water and not the other way round.Do I add the flour to the water or water to the flour?
So, how do you fix sticky dough? The simplest solution to sticky dough is to incorporate more flour when you knead it. This can be done either by dusting the surface with flour or the actual dough ball. Use small amounts of flour and coat your hands to prevent it from sticking to you.Calculating Pan \u0026 Proof Basket Size for Perfect Bread | Optimum Dough Weight Guidelines.
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You will need to add some flour, but not for the dough itself. It's for you.
Keep some flour on hand. You'll always need some to flour your surface, hands, rolling pin (for other ends) etc. This pizza dough is quite wet, so it's also quite sticky. To knead easily, a bit of flour on the outside can help you.
You won't need a lot, just a bit to ease the labour.
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