Rise & Punch Down Rye Bread Dough

Rise & Punch Down Rye Bread Dough
My name is Brandon Sarkis on behalf of Expert Village. Today I'm going to show you how to make rye bread. As you can see, I've taken off all the dough or rather and taken the bowl out of the mixer. You wanna get all the dough off of the bread hook one, because its part of your bread and two, because you wanna keep the hook clean. Now what we're gonna do is take our bowl we just oiled up and take this big ball of dough and dropped it in there. Your bowl should look like this when your done. There should not be hardly any dough left stuck to the inside at all. Take the dough and even it out a little bit to make sure its nice and even. Then we are going to toke a towel and cover it up for like two hours. Now everyone has different ways of doing this. What I do is set the oven on 200 degrees and set the bowl on top of the oven. The heat from the oven will help a little bit you don't wanna get it too hot cause you don't want to start baking this. You don't want to put it in the oven or anything. But if it is already hot in your kitchen or if you have a hot house or a very hot place in your house, its a good time to do it. If you are doing this in the winter, you are going to want to warm up your kitchen or else it will take forever for it to rise unless you have a bread proofing machine which would make things much much easier. So were gonna give this two hours and I'll be back in two hours to see where we are at. alright so its been about towo hours since i let the bread rise and it looks pretty big so lets go ahead and unviel it. Look at that, that's huge. So you can see it is actually coming up over the bowl whichis what you cant it to do it nees ot double if not triple in size. So now what i am going to do is punch it down. Punching it down entails doing just that making a fist and you just punch down in the dough just like that it takes all the air out of it. So what you want to do is punch it down all the way around and as you see its starting to stick to my hands. So what i am going to do it transfer it to my cutting board and were gonna knead it out into two loaves. cut it and get it ready for baking actually it gonna proof a second time before its ready for baking so lets do that right now.