RECIPE: David Winterbottom, Kāpiti Artisan Bakery This recipe is a two-stage process using a traditional Italian overnight fermentation called a biga. Dividing the dough. I live in Florida and the humidity is high, so is this result because the dough was too wet? Since the ciabatta dough will be too wet to knead by hand, use a stand mixer to combine it. I have experience with bread baking, and have never found a If at any point it gets too sticky and you are not able to handle the dough, wet your hands and proceed. 700g: Wheat Flour 550/700: 300g: mature Lievito Madre: 200g: mature Poolish: 210g: Bread Soaker: 470g: Cold Water: 20g: Salt: Production. I noticed that the dough was very wet, though. The dough for ciabatta bread is extremely wet compared to other bread types. Dough is always wet and sticky at first but, once you’ve kneaded it for five to six minutes, it becomes less sticky and more glossy as it develops a skin, which is the gluten forming. The dough will not stick to your wet hands Be quick while transferring the dough to the tea towel at step and back to the baking tray at step 4 and avoid handling the dough with hands too much. Make the biga 12-18 hours before you need it. Ciabatta. Main Dough. Ciabatta. Learn more on how to work with wet dough here. It worked pretty well. The exercise is to aid gluten development since the dough is too wet to knead. 20g: Dried & toasted bread crumbs: 40g: Soft left-over bread: 150g: Cold Water: Mix until smooth in a blender!! That is, I folded it several times during the bulk fermentation to get the strength that is difficult to achieve in a mixer when the dough is so wet. The word ciabatta means ‘slipper’ in Italian, and I see why. This helps to create those beautiful open holes that make ciabatta great. Use a dough hook instead of a beater attachment. A ciabatta is made with a very wet dough. Kneading wet dough by hand step #3: Repeated folds. Slightly lift the dough and repeat the stretching and folding exercise twice more with a ten minute rest in between. It takes practice to strike the right balance between wet and dry ingredients. If the dough was clinging to your paddle, it probably had a bit too much flour added to it. Let the dough rest for about 10 minutes. Also: put a tray or pot of water in the oven with the ciabattas to ensure a crispy crust. Our loaves taste nice though. There is one thing you should know before you start baking this Ciabatta. Because of this, the dough is not kneaded the same way other yeast dough is. Too Wet. Professional bakeries use a couche (a flour-dusted stiff linen cloth) to proof ciabatta. We always end up chucking lots more flour in to help it come together so it can be kneaded. Ciabatta, on the other hand, is a very wet dough. Ciabatta is a SUPER soft dough. and strong bread flour, it’ll be a breeze! A dough that's not wet enough won't have that classic interior texture, and dough that's too wet will spread rather than rise. Joanna @ Zeb Bakes Post author 18/12/2010 at 7:23 pm. When this ciabatta bread comes out of the oven it has a nice crisp outside and a soft and chewy inside. The dough for this ciabatta is fun to work with and if you’ve got a well maintained sourdough starte r, (check out my guide here.) Ciabatta dough is unique in many ways: First, it is a very wet and sticky dough, with often upwards of 80 percent or even higher hydration. I put it in a greased plastic container in the hot water cupboard, and marked the level to know when it "tripled in volume". The easiest way to deal with it is probably with a dough mixer, but not everybody has a mixer. Notice that it's already developed a smoother texture. There was only one option left that I could see: process and bake the dough as if it were ciabatta. The more you repeat these folding stages, the stronger your dough becomes and the more air it can hold! Not so much a "bread dough" as a "dough soup". Dough Too Wet - what to do? 9. I followed the recipe from the Artisan website and the dough was really sloppy - at least as sloppy as the ciabatta recipe I'd tried recently. This also traps the gases inside the dough which will create the u201cholesu201d in the bread. I'm trying out a recipe for a type of dinner roll. https://sophiaskitchen.blog/bread/ciabatta-thermomix-recipe Full disclosure policy.} The flour traditionally used in Italian ciabatta is also lower in protein, and the kneading time is short to limit the formation of a gluten network. Viewed 153k times 10. This dough is very soft and it’s easiest to knead it with an electric mixer. Here's our hand-kneaded dough after a 30-minute rise, and just prior to its first fold. Toss the dough? There is no way I'm going to be able to shape this into rolls. Folding is a tried and true method of gently continuing to develop dough strength, and is particularly useful when dealing with wet dough. 8. {This post may contain affiliate links, which means that I may receive a commission if you make a purchase using these links. Active 3 years, 8 months ago. When I split the dough and put it on the pan, it refused to get taller; it just grew out a little bit. Posted on April 28, 2019 / Under Ciabatta / With 1 Comment; This week's tip: Here's what happens when your dough is a bit too wet. To give you an idea, most bread recipes sit around 60% hydration while this ciabatta recipe is at almost 80% hydration. 3. The high hydration means the dough spreads out a little more, into a long slipper shape. Uniformly they always seem to be too wet, with our dough looking and feeling nothing like the lovely normal -looking and easy to handle dough pictured in the photos. Before the next stage, line two baking trays with parchment paper. Ask Question Asked 8 years, 3 months ago. As they were too wet too knead traditionally, he uses an air kneading method – tricky to begin with and we all had dough falling all over the work benches, but we sort of got the hang of it in the end! Very wet. Let the dough rest again for 30 minutes. Perish the thought! This requires some special handling (like locking all the doors so the bakers can’t run for the exits). Ciabatta, if you have never made it before, is a very wet, very sticky dough. The wetter dough will tend to spread out instead of rising up. Mix in up to 1 2 ⁄ 3 cups (390 ml) of water on low speed. The hot water cupboard isn't particularly warm, but it's not cold. If the poolish rises too quickly, simply place it in the refrigerator until you are ready to proceed. It's still tasty, so if that's what you want, go for it. We never really get a good rise either! The trick to a great ciabatta is completely ignoring the fact that the dough seems way too wet to be shaped into a loaf – in stead of kneading more flour into the dough, I discovered that covering it in flour allows you to shape it anyway you like. A mixer is necessary to make ciabatta, as the dough is too wet to work by hand. I mixed my ciabatta dough 2 hours ago, and it's barely risen at all. The dough is wet. The hook will develop the dough's gluten instead of smashing it. This straightforward ciabatta recipe is relatively easy and satisfying to make To get that classic ciabatta shape and open texture, you need a very wet and sloppy dough, so you really have to make it in an electric mixer. Further, there is no preshaping or final shaping—once divided, the dough is simply placed onto a floured work surface for its final proofing. Secure the bowl to the stand mixer and put a dough hook attachment on the mixer. Rolling such a wet dough was a bit of a challenge, but I ended up with some kind of baguette shaped things which a nice crust and had a kind of ciabatta texture inside. Rather, it is allowed to slowly ferment with a series of brief stretch and folds. Ciabatta is a risen bread - just like white sandwich bread - the fermentation of yeast given the dough an airy texture, but the dough of ciabatta is very wet - much wetter than traditional bread dough. Since ciabatta dough is extremely wet and sticky with over 80% hydration, a couple sets of stretching and folding plus resting will be sufficient to build gluten strength, which results in chewy and tasty ciabatta bread. This is a high hydration dough recipe (which means there is more water than flour in this recipe). Bread Soaker. Ciabatta dough is an extremely wet (high hydration) dough. Michelle, we sometimes start with the paddle attachment when mixing dough, especially if it's a particularly wet dough like ciabatta. Therefore I decided to use the stretch and fold technique. Eventually, you’ll get to a point where the dough isn’t sticky anymore and your hands have become clean just through the kneading motion. 3. After kneading it on my mixer for 15 minutes, I put it in a slightly warmed oven to rise. It wants to stretch out and get all weird so here’s how to handle that: flour the counter; flour the top well; flour your bench scraper well ; cut decisively; turn it a 1/4 turn to get the cutting line down the top; gather it firmly in hand, don’t let it drag; move to the baking sheet; and lay it down. A mixer is necessary to make ciabatta, as the dough is too wet to work by hand. It rises just fine, but when it hits the pan, it gets all blobby and flat, and kinda goes ciabatta stylie on you. Sprinkle some flour if the dough gets too sticky at any point. If you hate dealing with wet sticky doughs, you should probably try something else. 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