Month: June 2026

Why do your sourdough crackers bend instead of snapping cleanly in half? Nine times out of ten, it traces back to one of a handful of fixable habits — and I’ve made every single one of these mistakes myself. Across 11 years of sourdough baking, including a stretch running a small home microbakery where I … Read more

Early on — maybe four or five years into keeping a starter going — I used to scrape half a jar of discard straight into the trash most Sunday mornings, convinced there was nothing worth doing with it. That habit ended the day crackers entered my rotation, and now that same jar of discard is … Read more