Articles, recipes and guides
Free recipes, starter how-tos, and plain-English explanations of the techniques every home baker eventually needs. Pair these with the recipe calculator and you should be able to bake a good loaf without buying a book.
The recipes are baked and tested in a normal home kitchen, the guides explain the maths and the method without the mystique, and everything is written to be read in the order that suits you. If you are completely new, start with sourdough for beginners and work outwards from there.
TechniqueHow to tell when sourdough is properly proofed
The poke test, the volume rise, and the signs of under and over-proofing. How to read your dough instead of trusting the clock, in bulk and after shaping.
8 min read
GuideSame-day vs overnight sourdough: which schedule to use
Bake in a day, or stretch it across two with a cold proof in the fridge. How each schedule changes flavour, crumb and crust, and how to fit sourdough around a normal week.
9 min read
TechniqueScoring sourdough: how to get an ear and good oven spring
Why we score at all, the one cut that actually matters, the angle and depth that produce an ear, and simple patterns that work every time.
8 min read
RecipeThe Accidental Bassinage Loaf
How getting it catastrophically wrong produced the best crumb of my life. A mis-measured, soup-like dough, 195g of rescue flour, and the reverse bassinage method that came out of it.
6 min read
GuideSourdough for beginners: a complete starter guide
Everything a complete beginner needs to bake their first sourdough loaf. The kit, the maths, the terms, the timings, and what realistically goes wrong.
10 min read
StarterHow to make a sourdough starter from scratch
A simple, day-by-day plan for making a 100% hydration sourdough starter using just flour and water. No yeast, no kit, about a week.
8 min read
TroubleshootingSourdough starter troubleshooting: 12 problems and fixes
Not bubbling? Smells like acetone? Liquid on top? The 12 most common sourdough starter problems, what causes them, and exactly what to do.
9 min read
- Troubleshooting
8 common sourdough mistakes (and how to fix them)
Dense crumb, gummy interior, flat loaf, ear that won't open. The eight most common sourdough mistakes and the small change that fixes each one.
8 min read
- Recipe
Classic white sourdough loaf, step by step
A reliable 800g white sourdough recipe with the exact gram weights, plus a beginner-friendly walkthrough of mixing, folding, shaping and baking.
12 min read
- Technique
Stretch and fold, explained for beginners
What stretch and folds actually do, when to do them, and what the dough should look and feel like by the end of bulk fermentation.
7 min read
Reference guides
Short reference pages that explain key sourdough concepts.
- Sourdough glossary - every term defined in plain English
- Troubleshooting - symptom, cause, fix for every common problem
- Timeline calculator - plan your bake to the clock
- Baker's percentage - the maths every recipe uses
- Sourdough hydration - what the percentage means and how to pick one
- Feeding a starter - keeping yours alive between bakes