Use the poke test to STOP overproofing your dough!

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Stop overproofing your dough! Use the poke test to help find the right time to bake your sourdough bread dough in the oven.

While the poke test isn't always 100% accurate, it's another way to assess how fermentation is progressing in your bread dough. This technique will help you determine when your bread dough is underproofed, properly proofed, and overproofed.

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🎥 CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
00:51 What is proofing bread dough?
01:32 What does under, properly, and overproofed dough look like?
02:15 When baking, be a doctor
02:55 Is the poke test ever wrong?
05:43 Overview of the test doughs
06:36 Poke test: underproofed dough
07:43 How to fix underproofed dough
08:01 Poke test: properly proofed dough
09:29 Poke test: Overproofed dough
11:08 How to fix overproofed dough
11:45 Why do the poke test?

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