Another plastic wrap user.

I use a towel. It feels more french! Then again I pretty much gave up on bread-baking. I am not very good at making it and too good at eating it.

Not a bread expert. When I was making wheat based mostly no-knead (though I would knead some for a better result) bread, I always put it in a glass bowl with saran wrap covering. I think that's what the instructions always suggested. Sorry maddie's mom.

I usually drop a dinner plate on it. It's kinda a lid.

And sometimes I use a towel. No regrets.

For bagels I use a clean *damp* dishtowel. It only takes an hour to rise. For Belgian waffles, I cover snugly with plastic wrap and let sit over night.

I've used a dinner plate, plastic wrap, but more recently have shower caps I bought for bowl covers and XXL ziploc bags that can hold multiple loaf pans or a baking sheet for the final proofing. I've used a towel and have more concern about drying out the surface than slowing down the rise. But I once had the towel stick to my dough. That was an awful mess. But inexpensive shower caps -- even ones you get when traveling, work well and can be washed with less mess.

I recently tried making cinnamon rolls that I covered with a towel. They were the perfect example of "sluggish dough with poor fermentation." Will remember.

I use a braces and belt method…. plastic wrap over the bowl and a dishcloth over that.

I took a class at KA this past February, it was super fun. If you want to use a dish towel, to avoid cling wrap, they said it should be damp. I’ve always used a dishcloth, since the class I am using a plastic bag more. I have a cold kitchen and so my fermentation is always slow, regardless.

I've been using large lids from pans for years now to cover bowls when proofing dough. I have several, stainless steel and enamel, that I use interchangeably. They fit my stainless steel mixing bowls, as well as pans.

My dough rises in bread machine, and it is covered with lid. I see some people use cling film...and it works good , the same as with kitchen towel.

Plastic wrap user here...