For those who need knead by hand and dough is very wet(high hydration), you can use this kneading technique, which is free stress wrist kneading, and while in one video looks hard, the other show isn't hard at all, just patience and at the begining not make fast movements or you can ending spreading chunks of dough all over the counter or floor!, links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvdtUR-XTG0
http://www.gourmet.com/magazine/video/2008/03/bertinet_sweetdough
and I found that one or two rest periods of 1-2 minutes after 4-5 minutes kneading, help making faster to get the right consistency of the dough.
Oscar, thanks for sharing these links - very interesting, and helpful to "by hand" kneaders everywhere. PJH
August 29, 2010 at 1:59am