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I think working with flour tidily (real word?) is something you either can do or you can't.

I took Food & Nutrition at school (cooking/ human biology) and regularly coated my work area with flour. Even when we weren't using flour. But then I also used to sneak into the stores cupboard and nibble the live yeast, so what can I say. My nemesis was the spotless girl in the opposite kitchen, who not only remained pristine through the messiest of practicals, but also produced flawless puff pastry. Ha, you can get it frozen now Katie, what are you doing to do to remain superior, eh? Not that it scarred me mentally or anything.

In those days I believed that not broadcasting flour was a skill acquired automatically when you squeezed out a baby - like being able to slice bread thinly and evenly, ditto cheese, and spread cold butter on to bread or crackers without destroying them. I decided as the years passed that these were skills obtained by living a life thriftily through necessity - if you couldn't afford to waste any kind of food you just learned to go slowly & carefully until you learned how to control wayward substances. And now I just think it's innate. It's certainly not genetic - unless it skips a generation.

Your mileage probably does vary.