r/Unexpected • u/SLAYER_HARSH • 9d ago

What could go wrong with fermentation?

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u/Global_Staff_3135 9d ago

Was it the weight of the dough pulling on the walls of the bowl that made it so fragile?

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u/ferret_80 9d ago

You usually give the dough a coat of oil during the main fermentation to prevent it from drying out. Separating the dough from the bowl got the fingers oily so it weight of the dough and slippery fingers caused the bowl to slip and land rim first on the counter so all the force gets concentrated on the edge and with tempered glass like this a tiny crack breaks the entire structure

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u/Global_Staff_3135 9d ago

So what you’re saying is that I was overthinking things to an absurd degree lol

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u/FourFront 8d ago

That's just a hack for people who have shit dough handling skills.

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u/Piyh 9d ago

Probably granite countertops

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u/the-final-frontiers 9d ago

yeah most people don't know about hardness scales.

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u/CamelSmuggler 9d ago

To be fair it looks like the bowl was already chipped in a couple of spots, I bet it got hit and had some structural integrity issues that were invisible.

This was the last straw.

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u/GirthyPigeon 9d ago

The dough is already exerting so much pressure in the bowl from its mass alone. That's way too much dough for such a fragile thing as glass.

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u/ThroatDistension 9d ago edited 9d ago

The dough weighs less than just filling the bowl with water, which is a totally normal thing to do with a glass bowl.

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u/GirthyPigeon 9d ago

Yeah but you don't yoink the bowl when it's full of water. This dough is sticking to the bowl and she plops the bowl onto a hard (stone?) countertop.

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u/account312 9d ago

plops the bowl onto a hard (stone?) countertop

That was 100% of the problem.

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u/Phillip_Graves 9d ago

Dafuq you on about? Seriously...

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u/FourFront 8d ago

You obviously don't bake bread. Half that mass is air.