Should you use warm water to make bread dough?

hi I’m Rhiannon from the Epson bakehouse and today we’ll be talking aboutwhether you should use warm water orcold water when you’re making your breaddough if you enjoy my bread making tipsyou can get your hands on my five topbread making tips I’ll tell you a littlebit more about signing up for that laterin the video but first back todiscussing what temperature water youshould use when you make up your breaddough it’s getting a little bit colderhere and when the seasons change whetherit’s a hot colder or hotter you mightfind that making bread changes in yourkitchen and that’s because conditionshave changed so why is temperature soimportant for the way your dough Risesand your bread is made it all comes downto the yeast that you’re going to putinto your bread dough these yeast areliving they want to be treated I alwayssay a little bit just like us they wantto have warmth and food and some waterand in return they will digest the flourin your bread dough and produce gas thatrises your bread dough and that’s wherethe temperature of your water comes intoplay yeast work best and they’reproducing the most gas at a temperatureof around 37 degrees centigrade that’sabout 98 to 100 Fahrenheit temperaturesup to 37 degrees will make the yeastwork better and better once it gets toone so above about 40 degrees centigradeyour yeast will start to die and not nolonger produce any gas that to rise yourdough the second reason that watertemperature is important in baking breadis consistency and I’m often asked abouthow people can get consistent resultswhen they’re baking bread one thing thatyou should really start to look out foris the temperature that you bake yourbread at and trying to get your dough torelatively the same temperature eachtime you bake as if it’s getting colderso the air temperature is colder andyour ingredients are colder then to makethe dough a little bit warmer you’llneed to up the temperature of your waterand if you can keep to a consistentdough temperature every time you’remaking bread you’ll find that it risesaround the same rate the third reasonthat water temperature is important isit’s one element of your dough makingthat you can control quite easily inyour making bread dough you’ve got yourbasic ingredients of flour and then alittle bit of yeast and salt but in bulkprobably flour and items such as butterand eggs which might be quite cold andyou’ve also got athe air temperature of the room you’remaking your bread in and you also getsomething where heat is transferred inhowever you need so it could be fromyour hands or it could be from theturning paddle of a machine but thosethings were a bit hard to change you’vegot to knead your dough and it’sdifficult to heat up your ingredientsespecially without changing theconsistency of them the one thing thatyou can change is the temperature of thewater that you put in so that was threereasons why temperature is importantfirstly the yeast will work best in awarm environment up to about 37 degreescentigrade secondly if you can check thetemperature of your dough and keep itconsistent whenever you make breadyou’ll start to turn out consistentloads because your dough will alwaysrise at the same rate thirdly watertemperature is important because it’sone part of your dough making that youcan quite easily control what does itactually mean when we say warm water I’mtalking about water that you can easilyhold your finger in that’s a probablydecent temperature I say that kind ofcheck because you might not all have athermometer in your kitchen that you canstick into food safelyso that’s a few reasons why you mightwant to use warm water when you’remaking your bread dough is because ithelps the action of the yeast and helpsyour bread rise more consistently if youcan get to a consistent temperature ofyour dough however what if you’ve justmade a dough using cold water don’tworry you haven’t ruined your breadremember what I was saying earlier inthe video that yeast like to work betterat a warmer temperature he’s supposed tocarry on working when it’s really coldthey will just do it much more slowly soif you have used cold water and it’s acool day you might be waiting a coupleof hours or even more for your dough torise enough for you then to shape itthis is certainly no bad thing becauseproving your dough for a longer timehelps flavor develop and really helpsdigest the flour in your bread so ifyou’ve got any questions about thetemperature of the water you should beusing but when you’re making breadplease just leave me a note in thecomments and I’ll certainly get back toyou and if you’d like to get your handson my free five top bread making tipthen I’ll put a link in the comments foryou to sign up being great chatting morebread baking tips with you todayI’ve been Rhiannon from the Epson bakehouse and please do let me know ifyou’ve got any other bread makingqueries that you’d like to answeredotherwise I’ll say bye for nowand happy baking