I do everything by hand (no electric mixer) and I tend to wash my stainless steel mixing/bulk ferment bowl with a metal scrubby steel wool thing when it’s done. The steel wool gets gummy and I throw it away every time! Is there a better way I’m missing?
Pic of my latest because it turned out pretty!
by IM8321
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immediate after my dough is removed i spray with dawn power wash, and then cover the bowl with wet paper towel. leave to sit for a couple hours, then you can wipe all the dough remnants off and wash as normal 🙂
Soak it in cold soapy water, then wash/scrub with a paper towel so your sponge doesn’t get a bunch of dough bits.
I know I know! I bought these Lodge scrapers for my cast iron. They come in a 2 pack and look like puzzle pieces with half smooth sides. I filled my mixing bowl with hot water, grabbed my black scraper, and went to town! Took just a minute. I also learnt to use my bench scraper on the counter to clean every day not just for baking. I love running my fingers over a truly clean counter. I feel like I unlocked the keys to the kingdom. Feel free to share any of your useful tips about anything.
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I got mine at Walmart I think. Sorry for the ugly link. I don’t know how to make it pretty
Beautiful loaf!
I put my scrubber in the utensils caddy in the dishwasher. I run the dishwasher with a load of dishes, and if it’s still not clean, I leave it in for another cycle. I run it once, sometimes twice a day, so it’s never in there very long. If you don’t use the dishwasher as frequently, that might not work.
Use a bench scraper to get as much of the chunks that I can, then a plastic bristled kitchen brush to get the harder stuff. It does stick a bit but the plastic bristles are easy enough to clean with a quick rinse.
I let it sit out and dry after 1-2h you can just shake everything out
I got a metal scraper that is round on both sides. After soaking the bowl a bit I can scrape it easily. Also ScrubDaddy helps with anything remaining. But what about the dough bits stuck to the ScrubDaddy?? Well take a wooden chop board and scrub it to remove all the dough bits from the sponge.
Cold water soak, then ss scrubbbie easily cleans it up. You can buy them cheap at any restaurant supply store. Can be tossed in dishwasher when needed.
Soak with soapy water, then hand scrub. No need for any tools. Once visually clean, wash as normal.
Cold soapy water soak, then a bowl scraper on the inside. I let it sit for a while after scraping to let the flour bits settle. I decant the liquid out and the flour goo goes in the trash. Then a regular hot soapy water wash or dishwasher.
I dump and chunks or excess flour in the garbage and then I fill mine with lukewarm water then use my fingers to rub everything off the sides which mixes it into the water so there’s no chunks, dump that down the drain then rinse it out again with lukewarm water and then using hot water clean it how I would all my other dishes whether it’s by hand with my scrub mommy or in the dishwasher
Hi. I just soak on the counter with cold water. The. Doughy bits soak up the water and drop out after a while. Then I simply gon with my hands and rub around the bowl till the dough is all dissolved to a cloudy water. I strain that through a sieve. Dispose of any residue in the trash, but there is usually none. Then rewash I. Clean hot water.
NB: If you use hot water, the dough starts to congeal and becomes gummy.
With soap and water
Cold soapy water. Stiff dishwashing brush.
Steel wool is not great for your bowl. Actually, it is not great for anything except maybe for cleaning grill. Steel wool puts a lot of scratches and damages any surface.
I use a flexible scraper to scrape sides before my first stretch and fold. Afterwards, the dough no longer sticks to the sides much.
When I form a boule, I will usually throw a little flour into my bowl. I don’t like to dirty unnecessary things for no reason — that just adds cleanup time. For this reason I am using a bowl that is very wide and doubles as work surface.
Once I transferred boule to the banneton, I will use the scraper to scrape any larger pieces of dough and then my hand and the flour to clean the sides of the bowl and then I will throw it out. The bowl is pretty much clean at this point. I then cover the bowl so that it does not catch any dust and is ready for my next dough.
Usually when I bake bread the only thing that needs wet cleaning is my wire tool that I use to mix the ingredients (kinda wire whisk but for the dough). This way I save a ton of time on cleaning.
I could avoid the whisk and just use my hands but cleaning the hands takes more time than cleaning the wire tool.
I avoid cleaning scrapers because when the dough dries out, it falls off the elastic scraper when you bend it. I also put all my tools into mixing bowl and cover it, this way they don’t collect dust.
Funny story: at least once I used a dried flake of dough collected off of my scraper to restart my sourdough after somebody decided my starter is some kind of spoiled food and threw it in the bin.
Srub daddy + water + dish soap, and then I throw the scrub daddy in the dishwasher to remove the small dough bits from it lol
This is too funny. I scrub it out like you. And my scrubby gets gunky also but I use a second clean scrubby on the first one. Scrub them together and the first one comes clean.
Soak the bowl in the hottest water your tap will manage for a bit and then use a silicone dish brush to scrub the loose flour bits. You can actually clean the silicone ones. Then use dish soap and a normal sponge.
(I clean 16-24 of these at a time for my baking business.)
Dosh soap, water, and a platic scraper from pampered chef. Take about 30 seconds and nothing sticks to the scraper nor does it damage my bowl.
Right away after taking out the dough. Let it soak with hot water/soap then a scrub brush does the job.
wet wipe