I was thinking today while baking bread that here I was using a tool for something the designer probably did not anticipate...
One of the pains of baking your own bread is manipulating and dealing with the dough. Very sticky stuff. If you don't know better it's tempting to just clean the mixing bowl in the sink. Bad idea. That stuff may just gunk up your pipes in no time. And then good luck dealing with that.
So, what I do is clean the bowl with water and then dump the water and dough bits on my compost pile. Well fine, but it's a major pain to clean that bowl. It's a round stainless steel bowl from a Kitchenaid mixer. All curved sides, pain in the neck to scrape. And if you use a sponge, that poor thing will look bad afterwards... Welllll..... Enter my...
BONDO SPREADERS !
Comes in a set of 3 IIRC. The smaller one will just very nicely bend to the bowl shape while being stiff enough that it removes the dough very easily. Score! Also works especially well for detaching the dough from the bowl before balling it up. And minimal scratching of the SS.
Yea for shop tools out of the shop!
What have you been using in a different way?
One of the pains of baking your own bread is manipulating and dealing with the dough. Very sticky stuff. If you don't know better it's tempting to just clean the mixing bowl in the sink. Bad idea. That stuff may just gunk up your pipes in no time. And then good luck dealing with that.
So, what I do is clean the bowl with water and then dump the water and dough bits on my compost pile. Well fine, but it's a major pain to clean that bowl. It's a round stainless steel bowl from a Kitchenaid mixer. All curved sides, pain in the neck to scrape. And if you use a sponge, that poor thing will look bad afterwards... Welllll..... Enter my...
BONDO SPREADERS !
Comes in a set of 3 IIRC. The smaller one will just very nicely bend to the bowl shape while being stiff enough that it removes the dough very easily. Score! Also works especially well for detaching the dough from the bowl before balling it up. And minimal scratching of the SS.
Yea for shop tools out of the shop!
What have you been using in a different way?
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