Bread tip: Baby it's cold outside ... Proofing Box

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Hi Jeanne,

A couple of other ways are to use the closed oven with just the light

on; check the temp and even buy a larger or smaller wattage of lamp to

get the temp you want, 75-85 F for bread raising.

 

Also for about $20-$30 I made a bread proofing box from a large

styrofoam cooler, an incandescent (regular light bulb) lamp with a

dimmer switch from the hardware store, and inexpensive probe

thermometer (the kind with an aluminum shaft and dial) from the

supermarket. I mounted the lamp with the dimmer switch with some wire

through the top of the styrofoam cooler, leading the cord with the

dimmer switch out the top and poking the probe thermometer in from the

outside. I set it up so I can dial in a temp with the dimmer switch

and read the thermometer both from the outside -- so I can set and

adjust the temperature without opening the cooler. Since the cooler

will hold a couple gallon sized containers, as well as many smaller

ones, and will adjust to a wide range of temperatures, I use it more

as a yogurt maker, works better than any other, as well as a proofing

box for dough or sourdough starter.

 

Slim

 

 

, treazure noname

<treazured wrote:

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> Unless you live in a warmer area than southwest Georgia, it is cold

outside. Even normal house temperatures can be a little on the cool

side for bread to raise, unless it is one of those recipes that are

designed to do their raising overnight in the refrigerator.

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> Here are a couple of things I have done in the past, including what

I am doing right now in my cold kitchen....

 

> Today's bread is Monkey Bread but no animals were harmed in its

making. (balls of sweet dough rolled in butter then sugar and

cinnamon and placed in large angel food cake pan or bundt pan.

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> Love and hugs, Jeanne in GA

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