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Stretch and fold

Meaning in culinary arts & cooking, with examples

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In culinary arts & cooking, stretch and fold means: A dough-development technique that stretches part of the dough and folds it back over itself.

In Turkish: hamuru uzatıp katlama

How it is used

Used especially with bread dough during rest or fermentation periods.

Example sentences

  1. The baker used stretch and fold to strengthen the wet dough.

    Repeated stretching organizes the dough without continuous kneading.

  2. A stretch and fold was scheduled between the dough rests.

    The phrase can name one scheduled round of the technique.

Common collocations

  • stretch-and-fold technique
  • stretch and fold dough
  • bakeTo cook food with dry heat in an oven, especially bread, cakes, pastry, biscuits and dishes covered with a crust or sauce.
  • 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.

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