Kenwood chef - Dough Hook - Dough sticking to hook

herbee

I just got my kenwood chef and its simply amazing. i made perfect biscuits later today.
I decided to try make some bread and noticed that after the igredients get mixed (water, flour, salt, yeast) the dought seems to cling to the hook and seems to be spinning more than kneeding. is this normal?

JEFFWT

herbee - sounds like you need to add more flour to get a 'thicker' dough

Butterfly_Brain

I usually dip the oil in the dough hooks first and that helps a bit. I have a breadmaker and I do it with that too. HTH

herbee

thanks. I'll give both of those suggestions a try.
I guess it could be normal. i used a recipe from the recipe book that came with it, so i guess it could be just the way it is.

herbee

unfortunately neither of the suggestions helped.
Just in case i was doing something wrong i used one of the recipes from the cook book that came with the machine and it still turned out that the dough was more spinning then kneading.
Any suggestions?

katholicos

The only time my dough sticks to the hooks is when the mixture is too wet. Sometimes i add more flour and then just knead the mixture by hand for a minute - just to get all the sticky bits sorted and part of one big portion of bread mixture - and then stick it back in to give it a proper kneading.

Addiscomber

I have a Kenwood Chef and a Major and have never experienced the dough hook "spinning". I would try adding less of the recipe liquid to start with, you can always dribble a bit more in if the dough is too stiff. Flours do vary in the amount of water they can absorb.