Gluten Development in Sourdough: Why You Stretch and Fold (And What It’s Doing to Your Bread)

Gluten Development in Sourdough: Why You Stretch and Fold (And What It's Doing to Your Bread)

I still cringe when I think about the loaf I proudly slid onto the counter for my in-laws’ first visit. It looked like a deflated football. A sad, pale, gummy deflated football. My mother-in-law, bless her, picked it up, turned it over twice, and said, “Oh, how… rustic.” Reader, it was not rustic. It was … Read more