TIL I was over-kneading my bread dough for years, making it tough instead of airy

Watched a friend in Seattle just fold her dough a few times and let it rest, and the oven spring was so obvious I felt like an idiot for all those hockey pucks I pulled out of my oven.

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hayes.joel23h ago

Wait, you're telling me all I had to do was fold it a few times instead of beating it into submission for twenty minutes? That's wild, I've been treating dough like it personally offended my family for like three years now. Seriously though, I'm almost mad nobody told me sooner about letting it rest instead of fighting it.