Tag: sourdough beginner guide
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Sourdough Frequently Asked Questions
The most frequently asked questions all about sourdough. Ask me anything!
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Beginner Guide: How Temperature Affects Sourdough
Throughout my years of baking bread and working with dough, I haven’t always fully appreciated how significantly temperature affects the dough. I’ve always known my rises take longer in the winter and often go faster in the summer, but only when I started working with a lot of sourdough breads did I realize how important…
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Beginner Guide: Sourdough Discard
What is Sourdough Discard? Sourdough discard is a by-product of maintaining or “feeding” a sourdough starter. When feeding a starter, flour and water are combined with some of the starter to restart the fermentation cycle, but 80% of the original starter is discarded. This process is repeated daily (or weekly if you refrigerate your starter),…
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Beginner Guide: Sourdough Starter and Levain
Sourdough starter and levain (leaven) are both integral parts of the sourdough bread-making process. Read on for a more detailed explanation. Sourdough Starter ≈ Levain Sourdough Starter Sourdough starter is a culture of yeast and bacteria. It is continually maintained in the same way at regular intervals (daily, weekly etc.). A small bit of sourdough…
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Beginner Guide: Sourdough Starter
So you’ve decided to jump into the world of sourdough. Now what? This post will teach you all about sourdough starters and the fermentation cycle. It’s a great place to start if you are just getting started in the wonderful world of sourdough and naturally yeasted breads. If you don’t yet have a sourdough starter,…
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Beginner Guide: What Is Sourdough?
What is sourdough? A method of leavening bread that uses a starter of fermented flour and water. Answers to all your sourdough questions!
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Dehydrating Sourdough starter: Long-Term Storage
When you need to put your sourdough starter “on hold,” take a break or travel with it, follow these steps to dehydrate your stater and then rehydrate it at a later time.
