why flour makes stuff less sticy

Question

If your dough is too sticky add more flour

If your pie crust sticks to the rolling pan cover it with flour

If your playing cards stick to each other put them in a bag of flour and shake

Why does this work?

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Answer 1

It’s only works on dough. The dry flour covers the sticky wet dough , making it less sticky.

For the cards hack you mentioned, it’s not a good idea because the dry flour will cover the cards and whatever sticky residue was causing the card to stick (grease,oils,) but the flour will eventual get wet and sticky itself.