This is what every book promised me over the years, and I have never seen anything amazing happen ever. It goes from not very uniform to uniform, but that’s all.
After years, I found out about giving the dough a bit of folding, or balling it up, or whatever is fitting, and now it doesn’t take forever, doesn’t stick to my hands, and seems at least as good.
Have you seen anything wondrous happen from lengthy hand kneading?
Well, I don’t know what you’re doing wrong, but kneading definitely works.
Sticking is one of indicators of dough development during kneading. Once it stops sticking, you’re pretty much done. If you’re adding additional flour, it will stop sticking due to additional flour, not due to kneading.
During the minutes of sticking, do you just develop the strength that you keep going and ignore it? The sticking makes it so much more tiring.
Yeah, just doing my best to push through. But there’s a cheat code - hand mixer :)