High Hydration doughs – tips and tricks for handling, kneading and sha

June 09, 2020

High Hydration doughs – tips and tricks for handling, kneading and shaping

Written by Shipton Mill

Pre-shape tips for high hydration doughs part one

We’re back in the Shipton test bakery with Chris @cholister to talk about his techniques for handling sticky higher hydration doughs.

The next parts of this mini-series will show pre-shape and shaping tips, for anyone who’s been struggling with giant masses of sticky dough on their work surfaces! While he can’t teach our usual bread courses we’re experimenting with these short clips, hope they are useful to some bakers out there!

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Pre-shape tips for high hydration doughs part two

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Shaping tips for high hydration doughs

Chris talks us through a couple of shaping techniques for higher hydration doughs, including stitching, as part of our series of snippets on his tips on handling wetter doughs.

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