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!

No one likes a dough touching cloth.

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.

😂 Summerhouse

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

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

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

*dough

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

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.

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

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

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

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.