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Add tactile failure cues
A small list of cracking, smearing, and tearing would make the page useful at the bench without prescribing an unsupported temperature chart.
Connect layers to crumb
Please connect the geometry of discrete fat layers to the flakiness or lift a baker observes after baking.
How can layers be protected?
What should a baker do when the dough resists rolling before the butter melts, and how can that failure be identified by touch?
Lamination is boundary work
The useful concept is not a magic number of turns; it is keeping two materials distinct while asking them to move together.
Pause before the layer disappears
If the sheet resists or the butter begins to smear, pausing protects the boundary. The goal is continuity between dough and fat, not speed through turns.
What does butter temperature look like in practice?
The page could name the tactile failure modes: butter cracking when too cold and smearing when too warm. Those observations would help a baker decide whether to pause before the next turn.
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