How to create ideal conditions at home for proving yeast dough.
Surely many have faced the problem when you need to leave the yeast dough to rise, but you can't find a good place for this. As you know, yeast works best in warmth, and in my kitchen there is no such place.
Since I often bake, it can be hot in my kitchen and I often open the window so that there is at least something to breathe. As a result, the draft cools the bowl with the yeast dough, and it settles, so plainly and without having time to rise.
Before, I constantly scolded myself for forgetting about the dough and opening the window. But I didn't want to die of the heat either. As a result, I decided that I was not on my way with yeast dough and generally stopped working with it.
From time to time I tried to find a solution to this problem, but nothing sensible came across. Someone advised to stand the dough in the microwave, preheating the water in it, but the method is so-so. The microwave is small and the dough needs room to grow.
Somehow I even overdid it with the dough and then I had to wash the microwave, as the dough rose strongly and stuck to the ceiling, and some of it spread. After this incident, I once again gave up the idea of working with yeast dough.
But by chance I ended up at a master class of one baker, and he told me the secret of how he works with yeast dough at home, when there is no proofing cabinet at hand. The method is incredibly simple, and I was surprised that I myself did not think of it.
In order for the yeast dough to rise well, you need a place without drafts, preferably a large volume. And almost everyone who is engaged in baking has such a place. This place is the oven.
There really are no drafts inside the oven, unless, of course, you turn on the convection mode. There is plenty of room. But the temperature inside the oven is room temperature, but we need a warmer one. This is where a light bulb comes to the rescue, which illuminates the interior of the oven.
I just turn on the light and put the dough in the oven. The incandescent light bulb raises the oven temperature to 27-30 ° C. And now a wonderful place is ready for proving yeast dough. This, of course, is not a proofing cabinet, but an order of magnitude more convenient than the open space of the kitchen.
Where do you serve yeast dough at home?