Stretch and Folds –
Begin Building Dough Strength

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Stretch and folds are easy to do and help to strengthen your dough. Visualize your dough as a square. Take the right end of the square and pull the dough up as high as you can. Then fold it back on itself. Rotate your bowl 90º and again, pull up the right side of the dough and fold it back on itself. Repeat this technique until you have pulled the dough up toward the ceiling a total of four time. This is considered one stretch and fold.

Next you will let the dough rest another 30 minutes before performing your next set of stretch and folds. If you are putting inclusions in your loaf, your next set of stretch and folds would be replaced by lamination so you can get your inclusions spread evenly throughout your dough.

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