Dissolve My Dough wins the Better Home Awards 2026

Why this one won

Forty-one entries. Three weeks of testing. One winner. The 2026 Better Home Awards, hosted live from our test kitchen in Studio A, came down to a single demonstration the room couldn't quite believe — a stainless-steel bowl plastered with two-day-old sourdough, sprayed once, rinsed after five minutes, and held up to the cameras clean.

Dissolve My Dough is the work of Kay & Kayla, two friends who started mixing the formula in a Melbourne kitchen in 2023. Their pitch is unfussy: food-grade enzymes that quietly break down starch and gluten, so dried dough lifts itself away instead of being scraped off. No fumes. No abrasives. Safe for bowls, jars, banneton liners, dough hooks, drains, and — they're emphatic about this — for the hands of people who bake every day.

We came in skeptical. Most "miracle" cleaners arrive in our studio and leave in the recycling. This one didn't.

Trophy Reveal · 11:02 air time

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🏆 Winner · Kitchen

Better Home Awards 2026

The trophy moment

One bottle. One trophy. One unanimous panel.

After the five-minute test, the judges didn't deliberate long. The Better Home Awards 2026 Kitchen trophy went to Dissolve My Dough — and on the floor, between takes, the bottle sat quietly next to its prize like it had been there all along.

No scrubbing
No soaking
No fumes
No residue

Judges' Scorecard

How a category winner actually scores.

Each entry is rated on five criteria by a four-person panel of bakers, food scientists, and home editors. Scores are averaged and published without rounding.

Cleaning performance9.2

Hand & skin safety9.0

Ingredient transparency8.8

Packaging & refill8.5

Value over time9.0

Final8.9 / 10

Kay and Kayla, founders of Dissolve My Dough, holding freshly baked bread

The Makers

Kay & Kayla — two stand mixers and a stubborn idea.

"We got tired of scraping, soaking, and scrubbing dried dough off everything," Kayla told us between takes. "So we built something better." Every bottle is mixed, labeled, and signed off by the two of them in small batches — and shipped with a handwritten note that, judging by our review inbox, customers keep.

The formula is patent-pending, plant-based, and women-owned. Each batch is tested and recorded; ask them for the numbers and they'll send them.

The Receipts

What other bakers are saying.

4.9

237 honest reviews

★★★★★

"Pumped a little into a bowl crusted with two-day-old sourdough, walked away, came back, rinsed. That was it."

Maren P.

home baker · Perth

★★★★★

"I run a tiny cottage bakery and my hands feel like hands again. Cleanup on dough hooks went from forever to a quick warm rinse."

Jules R.

cottage baker · Gold Coast

★★★★★

"Skeptical at first, but the proofing tubs that used to need scraping just slid clean. The bottle even came with a handwritten note."

Theo K.

weekend sourdough person

★★★★★

"My banneton liners used to be a nightmare. A quick soak and the dough just lets go. No scraping, no soaking overnight."

Priya M.

home baker · Newcastle

★★★★★

"Bought it for my pizza dough station. Wiping the bench at the end of service is honestly faster than it's ever been."

Marco D.

pizzaiolo · Melbourne

★★★★★

"Smells like nothing, which I love. No perfume, no chemical bite, just clean bowls."

Hana S.

weekend baker · Brisbane

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