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# Laminating dough without losing your mind
- URL: https://astrix-proof.adrianoamalfi.com/laminating-without-losing-your-mind/
- Published: 2026-07-22T13:37:51.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-22T14:09:52.000Z
- Description: Butter, cold, and patience — in that order. The three things that go wrong, and how to stop them.
- Author: Iris Bemba
- Tags: Bread

Lamination is not difficult. It is unforgiving, which people mistake for difficult. Everything that goes wrong goes wrong for the same reason: the butter got warm.

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If the butter starts to shine, stop. Put everything back in the fridge for twenty minutes. You cannot rescue a broken layer, but you can always wait.

## The three failures

1. **Butter too cold:** it shatters instead of spreading, and you get shards rather than sheets.
2. **Butter too warm:** it merges into the dough and you have made brioche by accident.
3. **Rushing the rest:** the gluten fights back and the dough shrinks the moment you turn your back.

Between those three is a window of a few degrees. Work inside it and lamination is just folding.