This is one of the most common problems people have when making pizza at home. And there are quite a few reasons why this is happening, but luckily most of them can be solved very easily. So let’s start by seeing why your pizza is tearing. The reason why your pizza dough tears too easily … Read more
While most people don’t mind a little bit of grease on their pizza, sometimes the situation can get out of hand and you end up with a pizza that is way too greasy to be eaten. In this article, we are going to take a look at the 7 most common reasons why this is … Read more
Nothing is as annoying as sticky pizza dough, you can’t knead it properly, you can’t give it a proper shape, and sometimes you can’t even get it out of the bowl. So why is this happening? The most common cause for sticky pizza dough is using too much water. But there are other things that … Read more
When I first started baking all I wanted to make was a sourdough bread with a thin and crispy crust, but every time all I got was a thin soft crust, or a thick and hard crust, but never the crispy crust that I wanted. So I started experimenting until I finally managed to make … Read more
The best sourdough bread is made using a dutch oven, that’s what I’ve always heard when I was a beginner. But I couldn’t afford a good dutch oven back then, so I started looking up what a dutch oven actually does and see how I could replicate the effects. Now, many years later I own … Read more
This is one of the most common problems people have with their sourdough starter. And there are quite a few reasons why this is happening. So let’s see what are the most common causes. A Sourdough starter can have bubbles but not rise due to an improper consistency, bad temperature, using the wrong flour type, … Read more
This is one of the most common problems people have when they start making sourdough bread at home, but it can also happen to more experienced bakers as well. So, let’s see why this happens. Sourdough bread can split during baking due to a number of reasons: using too much or too little water, not … Read more
This is one of the most common problems people have when they make their first sourdough starter at home. Sourdough starters are very fragile in their first few weeks, and if something goes wrong it can easily stop them from rising. So let’s see what are the things that could have gone wrong. The most … Read more
A lot of people seem to mistake sourdough bread with soda bread, thinking that they are the same thing. But in reality, they couldn’t be any different. The 9 main differences between sourdough bread and soda bread are: As you can see there are quite a few differences, some are related to the rising process … Read more
Everybody likes their sourdough a certain way, I like my sourdough bread to be as sour as possible. So I started experimenting, I tried all possible types of flour, I tried different types of starters, experimented with different fermentation periods, and more, until I found out how to make my sourdough as sour as possible. … Read more