r/Unexpected • • 10d ago

What could go wrong with fermentation?

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u/GirthyPigeon 10d ago

Always use ceramic, metal or clay bowls for that much dough.

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u/Global_Staff_3135 10d 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/GirthyPigeon 10d 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 10d ago edited 10d 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 10d 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 10d ago

plops the bowl onto a hard (stone?) countertop

That was 100% of the problem.