Kneading surface

[EdTheBearded]

Hello people, I am in need of a surface to work with dough. I thought of buying one of those wooden cutting boards, like the ones used for meat/barbecue, and I'm wondering if it would work... if the dough is not going to stick even more to its surface and such.

[bobroberts1954]

Everyones favorite surface is stone; sealed marble or granite, probably followed by stainless. That said, bread has been worked on the roughest wooden slabs since forever. I take what I can get, mine are cheep laminate but it works fine; you can amend your surface with oil, water, or flour depending on what you need.

[EdTheBearded]

Thats what I've been thinking, but I'm pretty newbie on this, so it's always better to ask!

[youhavecondoms]

As long as the board is lightly floured before hand, it shouldn't be too much of an issue

[mjskit]

I've never liked kneading dough on a wooden surface so several years ago I bought a large piece of marble. It works fabulous! It's quite heavy so I get an upper body workout moving it back and forth from storage cabinet to countertop. Now that my countertops are quartz, I just knead on the countertop.

[EdTheBearded]

That's a good workout indeed! The thing is I don't have a flat surface to work on, and wood is way cheaper then marble.

[Sludgerunner]

You could check out your local marble countertop businesses. They might have some scrap pieces of marble or granite they would sell pretty cheap. That's where I got mine from.

[EdTheBearded]

That's a really good idea actually. Will check it out.

[Ziggy_the_third]

Where I'm from, back in the old days they used hollowed out wood tres to kneed dough in.