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Default Sourdough bread and the bread machine dough cycle

In this case the dough was so wet I couldn't grab a hold of it. You
can't do a window pane test if you can't grab and stretch it.
Russ

On Dec 29, 9:07 am, Kenneth > wrote:
> On 29 Dec 2006 08:36:35 -0800, "PastorDIC"
> >A few minutes
> >later I checked the dough cycle and it was too wet,Hi Russ,

>
> What characteristics cause you to believe the dough to be
> "too wet?"
>
> I ask because often we get better results using doughs that
> are quite "sticky."
>
> Often folks keep adding flour to avoid the stickiness, but
> with some practice it becomes easy to handle doughs that are
> quite wet. By doing that, sometimes the texture of the
> finished bread is improved.