-
Croissant dough
I tried doing Antoine’s croissant dough recipe. I wanted half the amount, so I split all the ingredients in half. However, as I’m kneading the dough and check for elasticity, the dough is tearing apart even after kneading the dough as instructed. Where am I going wrong?
-
2 Replies
-
Level:
Scoolinary Team
Hello Nebal,
Welcome to the Scoolinary community, and thank you for your question!Halving the recipe shouldn’t affect the dough’s structure if all ingredients were adjusted correctly.
However, if your dough is tearing, a few things might be happening:
1. Inadequate flour: Check that the flour you’re using has a PL between 0.4 and 0.7, as Chef Bachour specifies in the recipe. If the value is too high, the dough will be too tough; if it’s too low, it will be too weak and prone to tearing.
2. Under- or over-kneading: If the dough hasn’t developed enough gluten, it will tear easily. But if it’s overworked, it can also become fragile. Try performing the windowpane test to check the gluten development.
3. Hydration: When reducing a recipe, small variations in liquid amounts can impact texture. If the flour absorbs less liquid than expected, the dough may become drier and more likely to tear.
Try adjusting the hydration if needed and double-check your flour quality.Hope this helps!
Best regards.
-
Level:
Scoolinary Team
Hey there Chef Nebal!👋
Welcome to the Scoolinary Community! 😊Join our awesome group of food lovers and share your love of cooking. Everyone’s invited!
I’m Sol Damiani, the Community Builder and I’m from Buenos Aires.
I hope Sussan’s answer helped you. Please let us know if it did.
This is a Community that values your participation a lot. That’s why we created “Masters Game”, the game that could get you a FREE SUBSCRIPTION RENEWAL:
-
Win Scoolipoints by sharing a pic of your own dishes in our Community > Cooking Feed section. If it is really cool you can snag a #Scoolistar: you’ll win 100 Scoolipoints and we’ll give you a shoutout on social media!🤩
-
🏆Check out our Challenges and score Scoolipoints! Right now we have the #CroquetteChallenge going on and you can win an exclusive live session with Chef Chema Soler, and 250 scoolipoints! 🎉 Don’t miss this unique opportunity to connect, learn, and get insider insights straight from the source!
-
You’ll see everything you need to know about how to win Scoolipoints and renew your subscription for FREE here.
Let’s build a community of foodies together.
We hope you have a blast learning with Scoolinary!
-
Log in to reply.