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 …

Is your pizza dough too elastic? Trying to stretch out your pizza dough can be a huge pain if you’re not treating it right. If it quickly pulls itself back …

Dough can overferment on the counter, it can go bad in the fridge, and it can deteriorate in quality when it’s left in the freezer for too long, so it’s …

Baking bread at home is great, but you can run into some very annoying and difficult problems that leave you slightly disappointed with your bread. Your bread can look amazing, …

Taking your bread out the oven to find that it’s far too dark or burnt is extremely disheartening, but it’s something that happens to both new bakers and experienced bakers …