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Why does nobody talk about how much flour you lose in a stand mixer?
I weigh my flour every time for this cinnamon roll recipe I've been making for years. Last week I decided to scrape the inside of my KitchenAid bowl after mixing and weighed what stuck to the sides and the paddle. It was 22 grams. 22! That's like almost 2 tablespoons of flour just gone. Found this out by accident when I was cleaning up. Has anyone else actually measured how much dough gets left behind in their mixer?
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hollyg5918d ago
My friend Sarah runs a small bakery and she told me she did the exact same test a few months back. She got 24 grams of dough left in her commercial Hobart and it messed with her head so bad she started weighing her bowls dry and then after scraping to track her waste. She said it adds up to like a whole batch of cookies over a month. Now she uses a silicone spatula to get every last bit and even then she says the paddle holds onto maybe 5 grams. It's wild how much just disappears into the machine.
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elliotadams, the "crime scene" thing made me laugh because that's basically me now. I started doing the exact same thing with wet hands after reading about it on a baking blog. I wet my hands and rub down the inside of the bowl and the paddle before I even add the flour. It cuts the waste down to almost nothing. I also use a silicone spatula to scrape as I go, not just at the end. The paddle still holds onto some, but I tap it on the bowl edge a few times and that gets most of it. It's a small extra step but it saves me a lot of flour over time, especially when I'm making a double batch of dough.
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elliotadams18d ago
My buddy Dave actually did this exact thing once and it broke his brain. He's super meticulous about his sourdough formula and weighed his empty bowl, then the bowl after it was scraped clean, and came up with 18 grams of dough left behind. He stood there staring at his scale for a solid minute like it had personally betrayed him. Now he always wets his hands and rubs down the inside of the bowl before he even starts mixing. It's kind of hilarious watching him treat his KitchenAid like a crime scene every time he bakes.
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