temperature sourdough

Fermentation Temperature and Timing: The Guide I Wish Existed When I Started

· April 1, 2026
Fermentation Temperature and Timing: The Guide I Wish Existed When I Started

The dough sat there on my counter, flat as a pancake and weeping a thin film of liquid across the top, giving off a sour-but-wrong smell — sharper than the usual tang, almost tipped over from ripe into rotten. It was pushing 11 on a Sunday night, two full days of careful tending headed straight … Read more

How to Speed Up or Slow Down Sourdough Fermentation: The Temperature Tricks That Work

· March 18, 2026
How to Speed Up or Slow Down Sourdough Fermentation: The Temperature Tricks That Work

Scroll through enough sourdough advice online and you’ll find two camps flatly contradicting each other: one tells you to just warm your dough up whenever it’s dragging, the other insists that slowing everything down is the only path to “real” flavor, full stop. The second camp is wrong when you’re actually up against a clock … Read more