Photo Gallery #5B Clean-Up (Final Development)

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Published 2025

Using less pressure now... gently Stretch the dough across the bench.
Gather the dough toward you with the scraper in your right hand. Invert the dough onto itself.
Repeat the Stretch & Gather technique for one minute.
Clean your hands with bench flour. For one minute more, use just your hands and a light pressure to develop the dough, making it as smooth as possible.
Ready for Fermentation...

Round the dough gently. It doesn’t need to be perfectly smooth at this time.
Lightly oil a container and use a scraper to transfer the dough. Loosely cover the dough with oiled plastic, don’t tuck it underneath.