Question
Aruna Durbin
I have a question about the donut class. My dough was extremely sticky and never really seemed to freeze. I just left the dough in the freezer and eventually was successful. Any ideas where I went wrong?
Answer
Wanna go in the freezer? Yeah. Well the door sticky it can be it can be because maybe maybe personally it's in an environment. That is very humid. on a you know, when you when you make any kind of yeast dough, the liquid is usually the main ingredient is flour, but the second main ingredient is liquid in water in this and that but one should never assume that the amount of liquid that we list is the amount that you need because you have to work with the flower of the moment. So if you live in a very humid climate that flower flower already when it's made by the Miller is contains about 14% water, right? But only if it sits in a storage room, that is very humid. it will it will absorb even more humidity and and so adding the amount of liquid that we that we recommend in our recipe this kind of flower it will it will make that go too sticky. So what what I always recommend is to hold back maybe 10% of the water just by you enough to measure it and just hold some water back or some liquid back if you need to add it fine. But if you if you don't need to add it your door is gonna be fine. That being that being said that I lived in Chicago 30 years and for 30 years and doing the winter. We experiencing a 15, you know, one five percent humidity and all our doors always needed extra liquid. So the the thing to really pay attention to is is the environment. No, my dad was a maker and and he would he would help him out at a very young age, you know, like seven eight nine years old and then once he wakes me up at midnight to work with him and then I go downstairs and I see him out outside in the cold. and then and I'm like, what are you doing? Let's go, you know I get up to help you. So, you know, I want to get this done and then only maybe 10 years later. He told me he told me that he goes he would before he would start making the door. He would go outside and inhale the air, you know, and from there he could tell if sometimes you know before a storm there's a lot of humidity in here so he would he would smell that. And then from there they would. that's the liquid you know, so so, you know, I would I would recommend this person to to make sure to do not put all the right away. Well, that's a detailed story around the helping her with donuts.
