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Baker's Techniques: How to do the Windowpane Test when Kneading Bread

The windowpane test is one of the best ways to tell if you've sufficiently kneaded your bread dough, though it can sound like a pretty bizarre instruction when you come across it in a recipe! Here's w...

Baker's Tricks: How to Avoid Adding Too Much Flour While Kneading

Bread bakers are a calm, serene, zen-like bunch. (Right?!) But nothing gets us more paranoid than the fear of adding too much flour: too little and we have bubble-gum dough sticking to everything, to...