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Bench rest

Meaning in culinary arts & cooking, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In culinary arts & cooking, bench rest means: A short rest for divided or partly shaped dough before further shaping.

In Turkish: tezgah dinlendirmesi

How it is used

Used in bread production when dough needs to relax between handling stages.

Example sentences

  1. Give the dough pieces a bench rest before shaping the loaves.

    The pause separates division from final shaping.

  2. A bench rest made the tight dough easier to stretch.

    Resting changes how the dough responds to shaping.

Common collocations

  • short bench rest
  • after the bench rest
  • prepShort for preparation: the work of getting food ready before cooking or service, such as washing, peeling, cutting, portioning and making sauces. Also used as a verb.
  • bakeTo cook food with dry heat in an oven, especially bread, cakes, pastry, biscuits and dishes covered with a crust or sauce.

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