Romain Bertin

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Puff Pastry Formulation

Scale a fixed dough formulation, configure lamination turns and inspect resulting layers, dimensions and process.

Dough and scale

Set batch size, lamination butter and lock-in dimensions.

Ingredients

Fixed ingredient list. Ratios use flour as 100%.

IngredientBaker's %Water %WeightWater
Flour1164 g0.0 g
Egg58 g42.9 g
Water489 g489.0 g
Sugar116 g0.0 g
Fresh yeast47 g0.0 g
SMP0 g0.0 g
Salt21 g0.0 g
Butter81 g13.0 g
Honey23 g3.9 g
Total171.8%N/A1999 g548.8 g
Rounding difference-1 g

Lamination

Choose fold type for each turn.

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Process

Working sequence generated from current dimensions and turns.

  1. Mix all ingredients except softened butter. Add butter, finish mixing and target 24°C.
  2. Rest for 60 minutes, degas, then shape dough to 25 × 60 cm.
  3. Chill covered dough to 46°C. Shape 582 g lamination butter to 25 × 30 cm at about 5 mm.
  4. Lock in butter, roll to 7 mm, then complete simple turn, double turn, simple turn with adequate chilling and rolling to 10 mm between turns.
  5. Roll final sheet to 3.00 mm.

Cutting yield

Rectangular layout across one sheet made from full laminated batch.

Pieces30
Layout6 × 5
Theoretical piece weight86.1 g
Geometric offcuts0.0%