How to defrost the dough?

There is nothing more delicious than a homemade dough: it is made from quality products and keeps the warmth of your hands. But the preparation of dough (especially puff) requires a lot of time, which for many housewives is an unacceptable luxury. Modern housewives buy ready-made dough, and it's good if it's fresh and soft. In stores only frozen dough is sold, but how to defrost the dough if it is stone, ready to break when unfolding?

Slow defrosting

If there is enough cooking time for baking, use gentle methods of defrosting:

• Empty the dough from the packaging. Put the dough on a board or rug and let it lie quietly. Typically, 5 hours are enough to defrost in room temperature conditions.
• The dough can be left on the warmest shelf of the refrigerator for the night. After 10 hours, the dough will recede.

Rapid defrosting

Ways how to quickly defrost the dough, experiencedmistresses are called "emergency measures" and use them only in case of emergency. The slightest mistake - and the dough can easily turn into a lump, covered from the outside with a dry crust.

Yeast dough

Difficulties often arise with how to unfreezeyeast dough. If a mistake is made during thawing and thawed dough does not rise, then you can no longer start baking the cake. And now we will open the secret of correct defrosting of yeast dough:

• Put the dough in two plastic bags, tie it tight, letting out excess air, and dip it into warm water. Water change as you cool down.
• Put the dough in a plastic bag, wrap it with a towel and put it on the lid of a hot pan. Carefully turn the dough over so that the defrosting goes evenly.
• Transfer the dough into a saucepan and place on a warm stove next to the burnt burners. Do not place on the burners!
• The dough can be thawed with a water bath, but make sure that it does not stick to the bottom of the container.
• You can defrost the dough in a microwave oven, butgood housewives do not like this way: it is believed that yeast is losing its properties and utility. With defrosting in a microwave oven, you need to be careful and preliminarily read the instruction on the choice of power and time. If there is no defrost function, the 80-100 W mode is suitable. Put the dough for 45 seconds and periodically flip it from side to side, otherwise the top layer will dry and remain a stone inside.

Puff pastry

Unlike yeast, such difficulties with how to defrost puff pastry, is not expected. Fundamental rules:

• Do not defrost the puff pastry in the microwave oven!
• Empty the dough from foil, film and lay it on the board. At room temperature the dough will thaw rapidly - for two hours.
• For "emergency" defrosting place the dough in a plastic bag, wrap it with a towel and put it on the battery.

Not every woman chooses the most simple anda quick way to defrost the dough. The main thing is that your method is safe and does not ruin the quality of baking. Perhaps it's better to take care of the defrosting in advance: and you'll save your nerves, and the result will be good.