What is The structure of the dough depends on?

The structure of the dough depends on what it’s made of and how you mix it up.

Imagine you’re making a pizza crust, like when you make a pancake or a cookie. If you use flour, water, and salt, that's one kind of dough. But if you also add yeast, then the dough will grow bigger and puffier when it bakes, just like a loaf of bread.

Flour is like the skeleton, it gives the dough its shape. Water is like the juice that helps everything stick together. If you use more water, the dough becomes softer, almost like playdough. If you use less water, it's tighter and tougher, like a rubber band.

When you knead the dough, squishing and folding it with your hands, you're giving it a good workout. The more you knead it, the stronger and smoother it becomes. It’s just like when you stretch a piece of clay, the more you work it, the better it feels in your hands.

So, what's in the dough and how you mix it up are what make the dough soft, tough, fluffy or firm, just like how different kinds of playdough feel when you touch them.