Posts from: July 2020

Knowing when a sourdough starter is ready to use can be very tricky for the inexperienced baker – or even if you’re building a new starter. For this reason, people …

You’ve likely heard about all the health problems that are associated with the chemicals added to tap water. Chlorine (and chloramine), a chemical that’s added to virtually all tap water, …

Finding recipes that come from different countries can often leave people confused as to what the ingredients are. Seeing a strange flour in a recipe’s ingredients list will likely leave …

Your bread can come out the oven looking beautifully browned and well-baked until you take a closer look and see that the bottom of it is burnt to a crisp. …

Seeing your dough spread out rather than rising when proofing is a huge disappointment and it can break anyone’s spirit, so it’s extremely frustrating when it happens, especially if it …

It can be worrying when you go to feed your sourdough starter and see that it has a layer of a strange liquid on top. We want our starters to …

Is your sourdough not holding its shape? Putting in the time and effort to make sourdough can leave you expecting an excellent loaf of bread by the end, but it’s …

Having dough sitting in your kitchen or at the back of your fridge for too long might have made you wonder whether that dough has actually gone bad. It’s fairly …

There’s something very satisfying about slicing into bread and seeing that it has a network of large holes in the crumb. This bread is great for dipping or eating on …

Sifting flour is a useful habit to get into if you’re making certain baked goods like cake or brownies, but it’s pointless in some other applications. I was making bread …