How To Cover Your Rising Bread Dough Like A Pro Baker - Chowhound

Oksana Mizina/Shutterstock You can make the perfect dough, but all that hard work will go to waste if you make the mistake of cutting your bread's rise time short before baking it. The yeast needs time to form carbon dioxide, which stretches the gluten and makes your bread soft and airy instead of tough and chewy. While you're waiting for your loaf to rise, you want to protect the dough from environmental…