kitchenwitch
Veteran
Baking bread is one of my favourite hobbies, but since moving into my new apartment I've been running into some issues.
The apartment is a basement suite, and we live in a part of the country where it's already starting to get chilly.
It usually starts snowing around November and keeps up for months.
All this means our apartment is anywhere from cold to freezing on a regular basis, and I've been having a ridiculously hard time getting my bread to rise.
Do you have any experience proofing dough in the oven? I'm always scared to try because I feel like it would get too hot.
I've had the idea to put the dough bowl on top of the dryer, but I'm not sure if the heat transferring solely from the bottom of the bowl is a good thing. My DIY solution so far has been to blow some low heat from the hairdryer and then quickly wrap the bowl in tea towels to hold the warm air inside.
It works a bit, but nothing like when I'm able to let the dough rise in a warm kitchen.
Does anyone have any good tips for how to create a warm space for my bread to rise?
The apartment is a basement suite, and we live in a part of the country where it's already starting to get chilly.
It usually starts snowing around November and keeps up for months.
All this means our apartment is anywhere from cold to freezing on a regular basis, and I've been having a ridiculously hard time getting my bread to rise.
Do you have any experience proofing dough in the oven? I'm always scared to try because I feel like it would get too hot.
I've had the idea to put the dough bowl on top of the dryer, but I'm not sure if the heat transferring solely from the bottom of the bowl is a good thing. My DIY solution so far has been to blow some low heat from the hairdryer and then quickly wrap the bowl in tea towels to hold the warm air inside.
It works a bit, but nothing like when I'm able to let the dough rise in a warm kitchen.
Does anyone have any good tips for how to create a warm space for my bread to rise?