My dough is sticking horribly to the proving cloth

[custardlover]

I have used so much flour on the cloth but it's still really sticking on the second prove after shaping. I'm proving it in a Pyrex dish and a floured tea-towel and it's driving me crazy!

[SummerHouse]

No one likes a dough touching cloth.

[TooMinty]

What are you making? I never wrap in a cloth, just put it a big bowl with a tea towel gently draped over the top to prove.

[TooMinty]

😂 Summerhouse

[WinterAndRoughWeather]

Pyrex dish may be the problem as it could be “sweating”. Try a colander?

[bluefoxmug]

do you put the dough on top of the cloth?
tbh I use oil in the bowl of the mixer, a lot kess messy

[Icypop]

Use a bigger bowl so the tea towel doesnt touch the doigh...

[Icypop]

*dough

[sillysmiles]

Are you proving sourdough?
Pyrex dish and cloth makes me think that's what you are making.

[fitflopqueen]

Is this for sourdough?, if so better to reuse the same liner each time, don’t wash it, dry, dust with extra flour each time. I use banneton with cotton liner.

[custardlover]

Sorry thought I had said - yes to sourdough. Maybe I'll just dedicate this cloth forever and see if it improves then, thanks

[Moogletea]

I've had a similar problem. Now use colander and new jay cloth. Jay cloth seems to work better as not so thick

[bluefoxmug]

ime you need to use a whole more flour to prove in a cloth than you think.
quite a thick layer.

[Knotaknitter]

I have no proof of this but I was told that if you use a non-gluten flour to dust the cloth then the dough doesn't stick because it's the gluten that is the glue here. Cornflour, rice flour but not wheat flour. I was also told to keep the cloth in the freezer to avoid having to wash it.

I don't do sourdough so I've had no chance to test this for science.