What's the difference in batter and dough?!


Question: What's the difference in batter and dough!?
Answers:
Doughs are thick and used for cookies and pastries or bread and can be shaped with your hands or rolled on a board!.
Batter is for cakes and can be poured into baking pans from the mixing bowl usually your hands do not touch the batter!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

'batter is' : ask for someone to 'batter' you and then say 'doughh' as your noggin hits the pavement lol

The difference is: (in the UK!)

Dough and batter are defined roughly speaking,as,

'batter' is a coating ie breadcrumb origin covering for oven or fried foods, ie fishfingers, kfc chicken

whereas dough: is the main starchy binding ingredient used in bread, rolls, pizza bases, puddings, cakes, scones etcWww@FoodAQ@Com

Batter and dough are sometimes used wrongly (interchangeably) to mean a mixture of flour and liquid!. However, there is a difference between batter and dough!. Batter can be easily poured or spooned, like cake batter!. Whereas dough is a flour mixture stiff enough to knead or roll!.
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Usually a batter is more liquid, something you can pour
A dough is stiffer!.

Of course, there are thick batters and soft doughs, so it is a judgement callWww@FoodAQ@Com

Batter is more liquid, and dough is heavier and stretchier!. :)Www@FoodAQ@Com





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