Pre-shaping 101! This is how I do it - I’m very gentle and use a bench scraper to coerce the dough into a taut round ball. I push the dough up and curve it back towards me, like a candy cane motion. Quick sidebar: When I first started making sourdough, I was quite rough with the dough during the pre-shaping. The little I’d learned came primarily from TikTok videos showing bakers stretching out their dough, folding in the sides, and rolling it up. Since then, I’ve learned that being gentler here