You’ll want to score bread so it breaks open and expands where you want it to.
Category: Tips
Best Scale for Weighing Ingredients 🎥
Choosing the right scale is important.
How to Use Lava Rocks for Steam 🎥
Use lava rocks for any recipe requiring steam – like baguettes.
How To Clean a Cast Iron Pan🎥
I use my cast iron pan pretty much every day. This is how to clean it so it stays non-stick.
How To Shape Sourdough Baguettes🎥
After pre-shaping your dough, you’ll want to shape it to maximize surface tension and get it to look the way you want.
How To Pre-Shape Sourdough 🎥
After you’ve weighed out your dough into portions you’ll want to pre-shape.
Best Internal Temp for Sourdough 🎥
How do you know when your sourdough is done? After some practice and experience you can just set a timer. But what if you’re trying something new? Or just got a new oven?
Extra Long Cold Fermented Sourdough 🎥
So I like to cold ferment my sourdough for 3 days. 1 day will work but longer is better. How about 7 days? Yes, it’s awesome.
Sourdough Stretch and Fold 🎥
When you’re baking sourdough breads like Baguettes, you want to develop gluten so the dough can capture the gases when rising. Stretch and folds help with this and is super easy to do.
Sourdough Autolyse 🎥
When you’re baking sourdough breads like Baguettes, you want to develop gluten so the dough can capture the gases when rising. Autolyse helps with this and is super easy to do.
Restart Sourdough Starter 🎥
Once you get your starter going, you’ll have to restart it when you’re ready to bake bread. It’s really easy.
Scalded Milk 🎥
When your sourdough recipe calls for milk, you want to scald the milk. Otherwise it inhibits the growth of the bugs in your starter.
100% Magic Mill Ground Whole Wheat Flour Sourdough Bread 🎥
I got my hands on a brand new, decades old Magic Mill!
Sourdough Starter From Scratch 🎥
It’s quite the journey – and sort of exciting to see what happens. And if you’re lucky, you’ll have a bubbling sourdough starter after about a week.
Warming pad for proofing sourdough 🎥
You’ll want to have one of these warming pads when it gets cold.