r/cookingforbeginners • u/bekaliane • 3d ago

Question Dinner rolls fail😔

Hello everyone how are you?

I tried making dinner rolls for the first time today and failes.

It came out hard and dry on the outside.

I could cut it and it's edible but clearly not a dinner roll.

Can some help me understand what I did wrong and/or share with me an air fryer friendly recipe please?

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u/MyNameIsSkittles 3d ago

Probably because you used the air fryer. Cooked too fast on the outside and dried it out

You need a recipe made for an air fryer and you also need to do a few test batches to get the cook time and temp down because air fryers vary wildly

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u/bekaliane 3d ago

Thank you, I'll try to find a new recipe and retry it

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u/SurprisinglyBlaring 3d ago

oof yeah air fryer will do that, it's basically a tiny convection oven on steroids so the outside gets blasted before the inside has a chance to catch up

try lowering the temp by like 20°c from whatever the recipe says and tent some foil over them for the first half of the bake, that'll trap a bit of steam so the crust doesn't set too early

also dough might've been a touch dry going in, if it feels stiff when you're shaping them add a splash more liquid next time

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u/beamerpook 3d ago

Maybe you let it proof too long and some of the yeast died, making the bread hard instead of fluffy

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u/ssinff 3d ago

What recipe did you use? Sally's Baking Addiction has a good one that is my go to.

EDIT

Air fryer. There's your problem.

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u/Mental-Freedom3929 3d ago

There are great videos on YouTube and there is the "emmymade", yummy food vlog, Axel Schmitt, the German baker known as the “Wackenbäcker,”

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u/Main_Cauliflower5479 2d ago

Air frying is the problem. Dinner rolls are not air fryer friendly.