Normally you wouldn’t associate the smell of sour milk with bread or yeast, so you wouldn’t expect a starter to smell like that. But this is actually a very common smell for a sourdough starter. Sourdough starters can develop a wide range of smells, which can be very similar to the smell of sour milk. … Read more
Normally you wouldn’t associate a strong alcoholic smell with bread or yeast, so normally you wouldn’t expect a starter to smell like that. But this is actually a very common smell for a sourdough starter. Sourdough starters can develop a wide range of smells, the most common one being that of alcohol. The smell is … Read more
As tasty and as healthy as sourdough bread is, there is just one problem with it. It takes a lot of time to make it, and not everybody has that kind of time at their disposal. Luckily there is one simple thing that you can do, and that is to freeze it, but simply taking … Read more
I’m sure that just like me you can barely restrain yourself from eating the sourdough bread the minute you take it out of the oven. But doing so will be a big mistake, and not just because it’s extremely hot. Sourdough bread needs to rest in order to fully develop its taste and texture. On … Read more
This is one of the most common questions people have about the sourdough starter. And it’s a very good question, after all, you don’t want to spend weeks preparing a starter just to find out at the end that it wasn’t good. On average a sourdough starter should have a thin consistency, similar to that … Read more
The main thing that makes sourdough bread possible are the bacteria that live in the sourdough starter, so it’s perfectly normal to ask yourself if sourdough bread is safe, as we are used to associating bacteria with bad things. But you can rest easy, sourdough bread is completely safe. Sourdough bread is safe to eat, … Read more
Bread can be one of the hardest things to give up when you’re on a keto or any kind of low-carb diet, so a lot of people start looking towards sourdough bread as a low-carb alternative. But is sourdough bread really low carb? The answer is a little more complicated than yes or no, but … Read more
Sourdough bread has a reputation of being hard to make at home. But I believe this reputation is not deserved. Sourdough bread is not hard to make, the overall process is not complicated, but it can take a few hours. It all comes down to the recipe that you are using, some of them are … Read more
This was my biggest problem when I first started baking sourdough bread at home. The interior of the bread was perfect, soft, full of flavor, and a great texture, but the crust was way too hard for me. So I started experimenting until I finally managed to make the crust soft without any compromise. Here … Read more
While sourdough bread is a simple 3 ingredients recipe, commercial sourdough can contain a lot more than that. And with all those added ingredients it can be really hard to determine if a sourdough bread is vegan. So I decided to write this short guide that will tell you everything you need to know in … Read more