Category: Beginner Guides

If you’re looking for the ultimate guide to perfect sourdough bread, then you have come to the right place. Keep reading. I…

Did someone say bugs? Yes, we did, and they’re in your sourdough starter! Much like fruit attracting fruit flies, your sourdough starter…

We all know the precision required to create, feed and store a sourdough starter. Similarly, a sourdough discard requires some love and…

What makes bread dough different from pizza dough? Many of us struggle to find the distinction between the two, simply because dough…

During bulk fermentation, your dough needs to rest and proof at room temperature. But did you know that your dough can also…

There are many ways to fold and shape your dough in sourdough bread baking. If you’re familiar with the stretch and fold…

You’ve heard of a sourdough starter. Matter of fact you’ve pampered and preened your sourdough starters, in hopes of achieving the healthiest…

Sourdough bakers might know of hooch. In fact, hooch is a type of liquid that forms atop a sourdough starter and is…

There’s something comforting about the classic boule shaped loaves. If you’re a first time baker, then you’d probably stick to a sourdough…

Before a sourdough loaf is complete it must go through the shaping process, to ensure that it has sufficient tension and a…

One of the essential stages of bread baking is dough mixing. While there are many methods of kneading dough, some are deemed…

Understanding bulk fermentation is essential, especially when it comes to sourdough baking. If you’re a new baker and aren’t quite familiar with…

Baking and devouring loaf after loaf of sourdough bread is all well and good. But do you know where sourdough came from?…

The final steps in making sourdough bread, is of course the baking. Baked bread is one of the best things in the…

If you are tired of baking underproofed loaves, then you’re at right place. In this post we’ll check how to recognize early…

I bet that many times you have wondered “Why is my sourdough so dense?” Creating the perfect sourdough bread in the first…

New bakers being faced with a supposed calamity of an over-proofed sourdough should cease panicking. Try to work out how to rescue…

Sourdough bread is a delightfully flavorful and nutritious loaf of bread. Though, to bake sourdough bread, you would require a great deal…

Have you ever come across a sourdough recipe, where the baking process mentions an autolyse? The autolyse is a vital step in…

Proofing your dough is an important process in all bread baking. Skipping this step will result in failed loaves, so here’s what…

Some may find sourdough bread recipes daunting. But as long as you’re following a method, the process is fairly simple, and quite…

Prepping your sourdough starter so that its ready for your sourdough bread recipe can be a bit of a challenge in itself.…

Before your sourdough is ready for baking, it needs to be shaped. The best way to do this without any fuss, is…

Scoring sourdough bread might be one of the toughest challenges new bakers may have to face. There’s no right or wrong way…

Welcome to the world of sourdough. It’s one of the oldest bread-making techniques in existence, but this doesn’t mean it’s outdated. In…

Most may find that when planning to bake sourdough bread, preparing the starter can be a little daunting. Simply put, the starter…

Achieving large holes in your sourdough bread is the goal of many sourdough bakers. Dense textured sourdough is a common problem amongst…

We’ve all had our fair share of failure. And for bakers there is no limitations to annoyance and frustration. You’ve tried your…

Need help fixing the minor mishaps in your sourdough? Then you’ve come to the right place! There are many complications a new…

Weclome to the homebaker’s guide to natural bread coloring. Winter is perfect time to slow our lives down, to set up some…

Few months ago I wrote about 6 biggest challenges in sourdough baking a beginner can face. You know, sourdough bricks, moldy starters,…

When I first tried sourdough bread baking four years ago it was anything but easy. I gave up several times. Moldy sourdough…