How to Test the Sourdough Starter I have found that the best way to test your sourdough starter is by doing a float test. You simply fill a glass up with water, then drop a bit of your sourdough ...

It's a labor of love like few others in the baking playbook, requiring hours of careful kneading and resting, and enough patience and love to get a good homemade sourdough starter going.

Natural yoghurt gives this sourdough starter recipe a helping hand by introducing a little friendly bacteria. To learn how to use this starter see our easy recipe for sourdough bread. On day one ...

Optional tools like a lame (a tool for scoring the dough) or a baking thermometer can enhance your results but aren’t necessary for beginners. The star of sourdough is the starter—a mixture of ...

To make sourdough bread you need to use a ‘starter’ mixture that takes the place of yeast. The starter takes about 5 days to develop (or you can buy it online), but once you have it you can ...

He has used his data to better inform his feeding schedule and to learn how best to revive neglected starters. Surprisingly, this isn’t the first time we’ve discussed sourdough here.

And over the last nine weeks, sourdough bread has been so ubiquitous across Instagram that it’s become a bit of a lockdown cliché. “During this apocalyptic spring, the best thing since sliced ...