Beginners

am I doing it right? sour starter feeding schedule

When carrying over a sour starter (using a portion of the old one to make new), the method goes as follows; make starter and rest...

scrap dough in sourdough?

scenario: You are making a sourdough, and have leftover dough from a yeast based recipe, would you put it in your sourdough to...

Using wheat starter for rye bread

I make a 60% rye bread with a wheat sourdough starter, with a 7-9 hour ferment. By switching to a rye sourdough starter does...

First Loaf a Success - of sorts

I made my first ever sourdough loaf yesterday, after nursing my starter along all week. I used predominantly rye flour in the...

Freezing?

Hmmm... so, I have a couple of really big assignments coming up and as a great procrastination, I've been baking (3 fruit loaves...

Mould

Five Days!

I don't understand why more people don't bake bread. Five days ago I'd never baked bread in my life: I decided to try, so I put...

rye/spelt/uh-oh... (hello, I'm new here, and I'm worrying about my bread...)

Okay. So in general I think I'm doing pretty well with this sourdough business. I'm intolerant to wheat but can tolerate both rye...

Restarting Starter?

Hi all, my sourdough is going really well, the starter bubbles away and the loaves rise really well...but... my starter wont...

Starter ok, first loaf edible!

Ok, so I worked out my issues with my starter and my first loaf turned out sort of ok. Here's the story. I had my starter going...