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dough sheeter

dough sheeter

1 6.7
A machine that rolls dough into thin, even sheets for bakeries
  • noun
  • /doʊ ʃiːtər/
  • Specialized
translation icon : rodillo de masa
  • The dough sheeter is essential for large bakeries.

Examples

  • She carefully fed the pastry through the dough sheeter to prepare it for the next step.

  • A dough sheeter is essential for making large batches of pastry with uniform thickness.

  • The bakery invested in a new dough sheeter to improve production speed and consistency.

  • Can you show me how to use the dough sheeter?

  • The bakery invested in a new dough sheeter to improve the quality of their pastries.

  • Using a dough sheeter, the chef effortlessly created perfectly thin sheets of dough for lasagna.

  • In the commercial kitchen, the dough sheeter was essential for quickly preparing large batches of bread.

Synonyms

sheeter
vsdough sheeter
  • Specialized
1 7.8

A machine or person that makes flat sheets from materials like paper and dough

rolls bakery mixtures into uniform sheets of set thickness for commercial bakeries

Surface Forms

dough sheeter singular
dough sheeters plural

Morphology

dough + sheeter

The compound is directly compositional: 'dough' (the baking material) + 'sheeter' (a device that produces sheets) yields a machine that makes sheets of dough. This agentive noun formation and the literal relation between parts follows common compound patterns and would be understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.

Etymology

The noun dough sheeter names a machine that presses dough between rollers to make thin, even sheets of pastry. So sheeter means something that 'makes sheets', and the phrase refers to a machine that 'rolls out' dough into uniform sheets.