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Scaling Bread Dough
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Lets say I made up a batch of bread dough and I want to weigh it out. How many ounces of dough would I weigh for these types of breads:
French Bread Italian Bread Sub rolls (large and small) Dinner Rolls Pan Bread Kaiser Roll 
I weigh out dinner rolls at 3 oz., bigger rolls (kaiser, hot dog, hamburger) somewhere between 4 and 6oz. A regular loaf of bread usually weighs about a pound/pound and a half.
That's just me. I'm sure others will be along with much more info for you.
You only live once . . . but if you do it right once should be enough!
I make hot dog/burger rolls about 3 oz. each. Some dinner rolls I make about 4 oz.
Since there are two of us, I like to make small loaves - 8 to 10 oz.
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I do dinner rolls at 2.1-just works out that way for me, and they're plenty big. Hamburger rolls around 3.5. Bread, around 12 oz. Help any?
PJ
PJ
Mine are about the same. The last time I did rolls, I used the 2 or 2.5 oz. size and was much happier with the size. French bread, I think is around a pound and loaf bread is about 10 oz. I originally made my hot dog and hamburger buns larger, but on advice from Sharon and Jean, I scaled it back to 3 oz.
Daphne
Keep your mind wide open.
Funny, we're all really close to the same size. I think it might be a "sight" thing. But I do weigh each piece of dough, just to be sure.
You only live once . . . but if you do it right once should be enough!
It's funny you mention the sight thing. The last time I made buns, I nailed it almost every time....LOL! And the last few times I've done loaves, I almost didn't weight them. To think how far I've come with bread making! I never would have believed it a few years ago!
Daphne
Keep your mind wide open.
good feeling, huh Daphne?
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Euphoric! I LOVE it! Working with the pizza dough this past weekend, I remembered. It's been too long~
It's funny, you really DO develop a passion for the dough. (And a fele for it). I will probably make some this weekend, if only a batch of popcorn bread or basic French. I'll play with the othhers this summer.
Daphne
Keep your mind wide open.
Exactly, Daphne. I still throw it on the scale, but I'm almost always right, by sight. And I can just touch my bread dough in the machine to know exactly where I am at the moment. It's something you can't describe, it's just a feeling.
PJ
PJ
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