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Asked by: Meilian Sabatino
food and drink desserts and bakingWhat happens if you don't knead bread?
If you peter out and don't knead yourdough enough by hand, or if you don't allow it enoughtime in your mixer, the dough will lack strength. Thedough may even fall back onto itself and collapse as thegases produced by the yeast escapes. Once baked, an under-kneadedbread loaf will be flat and dense in texture.
In this way, what happens if you don't knead dough long enough?
And when you do, over-kneaded dough hastrouble integrating the new folds. Over-kneaded dough willalso tear easily; in under-kneaded dough this is because thegluten hasn't become elastic enough, but inover-kneaded dough, this means that the gluten is so tightthat it has very little give.
Subsequently, question is, is kneading bread necessary?
The purpose of kneading a bread dough isto form gluten. This is very important for bread, becausethe gluten meshes will hold the gasses that the yeast produce,which will help the bread to rise. The theory behind ano-knead bread is that there is more than one way to makegluten.
Kneading develops the strands of gluten in thedough, allowing it to rise properly and giving it the propertexture. If you don't knead it enough, it'll be, yes,too dense and hard. While it is possible to over-kneaddough, it's very, very difficult to do so.