Have you ever come across a sourdough recipe, where the baking process mentions an autolyse? The autolyse is a vital step in…
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Proofing Basket Alternatives – What You Need to Know
Proofing your dough is an important process in all bread baking. Skipping this step will result in failed loaves, so here’s what…
Sourdough Bread for Beginners: Your Guide From Starter to Loaf
Making delicious sourdough bread from scratch seems like an impossible feat for many beginners. Between culturing a starter, kneading techniques, and baking,…
Best Oven Baking Sourdough Temperature: Tips and Tricks
Prepping your sourdough starter so that its ready for your sourdough bread recipe can be a bit of a challenge in itself.…
Can You Bake Sourdough Pan Bread? (Yes! Here’s How)
Before your sourdough is ready for baking, it needs to be shaped. The best way to do this without any fuss, is…
Sourdough Scoring Designs: How to Score Sourdough Bread + Best Tips
Scoring decorative slashes into sourdough bread loaves turns baking from bland to beautiful. But achieving those iconic masterpiece boules with winding wheat…
Sourdough Hydration Process – Everything You Need to Know and More
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 It’s one of the oldest bread-making techniques in existence, but this doesn’t mean it’s outdated.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…
Reasons Why Sourdough Starter Smells + Ways to Fix It
Most may find that when planning to bake sourdough bread, preparing the starter can be a little daunting. Simply put, the starter…
How to Get Large Holes in Sourdough Bread – Perfect Sourdough Tips
Achieving large holes in your sourdough bread is the goal of many sourdough bakers. Dense textured sourdough is a common problem amongst…
Why is My Sourdough Bread Gummy? – Solving Chewy Sourdough Problems
We’ve all had our fair share of failure. And for bakers there is no limitations to annoyance and frustration. You’ve tried your…
Sourdough Not Rising – What Went Wrong and How to Fix It
Need help fixing the minor mishaps in your sourdough? Then you’ve come to the right place! There are many complications a new…
Natural Bread Coloring: A Homebaker’s Guide
Weclome to the homebaker’s guide to natural bread coloring. Winter is perfect time to slow our lives down, to set up some…
7 essential keys for successful sourdough baking
Few months ago I wrote about 6 biggest challenges in sourdough baking a beginner can face. You know, sourdough bricks, moldy starters,…
Six biggest challenges when starting sourdough baking and how to overcome them
When I first tried sourdough bread baking four years ago it was anything but easy. I gave up several times. Moldy sourdough…
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