I want to tell you about the morning I nearly threw away a starter I had been nurturing for three months. It was a Tuesday, I had just shuffled into the kitchen in my pajamas, and when I lifted the lid off my jar I was greeted by what I can only describe as the … Read more
I still remember the morning I sliced into my very first real sourdough loaf and felt something shift — not just in the kitchen, but in my body. I’d been dealing with bloating and sluggish digestion for years, quietly blaming it on “just how I am.” But after a few weeks of eating the bread … Read more
I still remember the moment sourdough stopped being just a hobby and started feeling like something almost miraculous. I had been reading about sourdough nutritional benefits vitamins minerals late one night, flour still dusted on my forearms, and I genuinely had to set the book down. The fermentation happening in my little ceramic crock wasn’t … Read more
I still remember the afternoon a close friend stood in my kitchen, eyeing the golden sourdough loaf I’d just pulled from the Dutch oven, and said quietly, “I wish I could eat that. Bread just destroys me.” She didn’t have celiac disease — her doctor had chalked it up to gluten sensitivity — but she’d … Read more
A few years ago, my mother-in-law mentioned she had been avoiding bread because of her blood sugar levels. I handed her a thick slice of my long-fermented whole wheat sourdough and told her to just try it. She was skeptical — bread is bread, right? But after doing a little digging into the research, I … Read more
I still remember the afternoon I finally admitted the truth to myself — standing over the sink, bloated and uncomfortable after eating what I thought was a healthy homemade loaf. I had used good flour, filtered water, even a pinch…
I still remember the loaf that made me obsessed with understanding how to control sourdough sourness flavor. It was a Tuesday afternoon, my third bake of the week, and I pulled a gorgeous golden boule out of the Dutch oven — beautiful ear, perfect crust, the whole deal. Then I sliced into it and took … Read more
I still remember the sinking feeling of turning out a loaf that spread flat across my baking stone like a sad pancake. No oven spring, a dense crumb, and that telltale sour smell that told me I’d gone too far. That was my first real lesson in understanding over proofed vs under proofed sourdough — … Read more
I still remember the moment I sliced into what I thought was my best loaf yet — a beautifully blistered crust, a confident spring, and then… a dense, sticky, almost wet interior that stuck to the knife like paste. If you’ve been searching for a gummy sourdough crumb fix, I promise you, I have been … Read more
I still remember the morning I pulled back my linen cloth, ready to score a beautiful boule, and found a sad, dense puck of dough that had barely moved overnight. I had done everything I thought was right — fed my starter, measured my flour, shaped with care — and yet nothing. Flat. Lifeless. Honestly, … Read more
