🧪 A testing device 🍞 A dough cabinet ✅ A confirmer 📐 A proof tool

prover

9.5

A heated cabinet that helps dough rise before baking

noun
/ˈpruːvər/

: cámara de fermentación

Before baking the loaves, she checked the prover to see if the dough had doubled in size.

Examples

A commercial prover helps maintain the perfect environment for yeast activity.
Many provers are designed to maintain a consistent temperature.
The baker placed the dough in the prover to ensure it would rise evenly.
The baker placed the dough in the prover to rise.
The baker placed the dough in the prover to ensure it would rise evenly.
A commercial prover helps maintain the perfect environment for yeast activity.
Before baking the loaves, she checked the prover to see if the dough had doubled in size.

Synonyms

proofer

vsprover

1 5.1

A person who checks text for errors or a machine that lets dough rise

is a heated cabinet used to let dough rise before baking

Surface Forms

prover singular

provers plural

Morphology

prover = prove (semi-transparent) = prove + er

Built from the verb 'prove' (in the baking sense 'to let dough rise') + '-er'; the baking sense of 'prove' is specialized and may be unfamiliar to general learners.

Etymology

Prover in baking comes from the verb prove, originally from Latin probare meaning 'to test', and bakers used 'prove' to mean 'let dough rise'. So a prover is the warm chamber where dough 'proves' and rises before baking.