Floss ready, time to slice – how to easily cut sticky dough
We’ve written before about the versatility of dental floss in the kitchen, as prosaic as that may sound. If you’re baking a cake and want to put filling between two or three layers, it comes in handy, and apparently you can also use it to tackle a piece of watermelon. And you can use it for this too:
Especially if you enjoy baking and often work with soft dough, you may have experienced that the dough sticks to your knife when portioning it. When, for example? When you want to make cinnamon rolls; or anything else where you want to cut rolled dough into neat pieces. This trick can be very useful!
Sticky business
Not only does dough often stick to a knife or even a special dough cutter when you want to cut it, but you also often press the edges on either side of the cut downward. This won’t help keep your rolls even when you lay them flat. This trick helps with that too, and here’s the technique:
Pinching
First decide how thick (or, in other words, how ‘high’) you want to make the rolls and make a very light indentation there with the dental floss. Then carefully work a piece of floss about 30 cm long underneath the roll. At the indentation, bring the ends upward, cross your hands with the ends of the floss, and ‘pinch’ off a neat piece of dough. Repeat this with the entire roll.
Easy peasy
Super easy! Would you like to see someone demonstrate it? Then watch the YouTube video below. And once you get the hang of it, you’ll probably never do it any other way. And for the sake of completeness: use unflavored dental floss.
Also read:
- Franzbrötchen: a flattened cinnamon croissant
- What to do about common kitchen mishaps
- 7 foods you have to buy at IKEA
Source: Epicurious
