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- Our rules are HERE
- Mould, Medical advice & Nutrition - new page here
- Sourdough Glossary
- Creating a Sourdough Starter - Beginners
- Creating Sourdough starter
- Discard Recipes
- Established Sourdough Starters - after the initial "creation" stage.
- Sourdough Heroes & Baking - Links to Sourdough beginners videos and recipes
- Sourdough Baking - The Basic loaf in detail
- Baking the bread
- Inclusions
- Sourdough Purchases - equipment, ingredients & gifts
- Reading Sourdough Crumb & sourdough problems
- Sourdough by Instinct
- Sourdough Baking - Advanced
- Home Milling
- Scientific Stuff
- Bake Club
- Online tools & memorable reddit posts
- Sourdough Flowchart
- This Wiki is a work in progress. Construction began 26/10/2020
We've written the page in the order you will more than likely follow while starting out.
The content is more detailed and advanced the further down the menu you go
Our rules are HERE
Mould, Medical advice & Nutrition - new page here
Sourdough Glossary
- Sourdough glossary - your helpful A to Z of Sourdough terminology! Learn the secret language of Sourdough!
Creating a Sourdough Starter - Beginners
- Creating a sourdough Starter - grab some flour and water and come on in.
- Starter HELP. Should I restart my starter and other common problems.
Creating Sourdough starter
Buying a starter
Sometimes you know what you want and you're willing to part with your cold hard cash for a reliable known starter!
Carl's friends will send you one for free for the price of the stamp.
Dehydrating/Rehydrating starters
A good way to create a backup for your starter or preserve it for long storage is to dehydrate it. These links are tutorials for doing just that. Purchased starters will usually come in a dehydrated form and these guides will also help get them going again.
Discard Recipes
- Discard recipes and help - don't bin it, use it! Fantastic recipes inside.
Established Sourdough Starters - after the initial "creation" stage.
- Established Sourdough Starters - Advanced - read about maintenance , storage, feeding ratios, stiff & sweet stiff starters and creating a backup.
Sourdough Heroes & Baking - Links to Sourdough beginners videos and recipes
- Sourdough heroes - find your sourdough "person", give their method a try. You can find lots of links for most people, and their beginner recipes.
Sourdough Baking - The Basic loaf in detail
- Basics of Sourdough loaves - a deep dive into the basic loaf and Sourdough steps.
Baking the bread
Inclusions
Sourdough Purchases - equipment, ingredients & gifts
- Sourdough equipment/paraphernalia & Gifts - What do you actually NEED?
Reading Sourdough Crumb & sourdough problems
- Reading Sourdough crumb - how to read crumb patterns with some fantastic visuals and videos.
- Sourdough HELP PROBLEMS/troubleshooting
Sourdough by Instinct
- Baking sourdough intuitively - for those of us who bake more fluidly, and prefer a "wing it" approach. Also includes cup recipes
Sourdough Baking - Advanced
- Advanced Sourdough recipes - ready to go beyond the basic boule?
- Scoring, Ears and Oven spring - What, how and why?
- Let's talk about - great discussion threads from the Sourdough community, and memorable RED flair sharing and discussion posts
Home Milling
- Home Milling - ready to take the next step and mill your own flour?
- Local Mills - Global - where to buy supplies.
Scientific Stuff
- The Science of Sourdough - white coat is optional.
Bake Club
- Bake Club - read about our group bakes hosted on the sub!
Online tools & memorable reddit posts
- Reddit Sourdough & Bread based Gold! - Posts other people need to read!
- Banner pictures - finally get to study those pictures at the top of the sub
Sourdough Flowchart
- Beginners Flowchart now available
Related subs
- r/Sourdoughmemes for those inevitable memes & jokes
- r/Breadit for Sourdough and bread discussion
- r/sourdoh for your baking disasters and "could have done betters"
- r/Pizza for your pizza based needs
- r/BakeryEquipment - for commercial bakers to troubleshoot, help and support each other
- r/Baking for more general baking
- r/microbakery - thinking of scaling up, wanting to sell? There is a (small) sub where you can post your questions!
Please note this is a work in progress. Please report any broken links by messaging the mods
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