I’ll never forget the morning I pulled my sourdough out of the oven and watched it collapse like a sad pancake. It wasn’t the dough. The fermentation was perfect. The shaping was solid. The problem was sitting right there on my cooling rack: a Dutch oven that couldn’t handle the heat, couldn’t trap steam properly, … Read more
For the first two years of my sourdough journey, my loaves were flat. Not pancake-flat, but definitely not the dramatic, ear-splitting, Instagram-worthy loaves I kept seeing everywhere. I had decent flour, a healthy starter, and a solid scoring technique. Yet…
I want to tell you about the day I set off my smoke alarm three times before 8am, stood in my kitchen waving a dish towel at the ceiling, and somehow ended up baking the most beautiful loaf of sourdough I had ever made in my life. That morning was my official deep dive into … Read more
