The Best UK Flour Brands for Sourdough Baking, Tested and Ranked Choosing the right flour is probably the single most consequential decision you make when baking sourdough. You can nail your hydration, perfect your shaping, and manage your fermentation beautifully,…
How to Bake Sourdough Without a Dutch Oven Using UK Kitchen Equipment The Dutch oven has become almost mythologised in sourdough circles. Browse any baking forum or watch a handful of YouTube tutorials and you would be forgiven for thinking…
Why Is My Sourdough So Dense? Troubleshooting a Flat Loaf You have spent three days nurturing your starter, mixed your dough at the crack of dawn, and waited patiently through the long ferment. Then you open the oven door and…
Strong White Bread Flour vs. Wholemeal: Which Is Best for Sourdough in the UK? Walk into any decent UK supermarket or independent mill’s online shop and you will find yourself facing a wall of flour options. For sourdough bakers, the…
The 10 Most Common Sourdough Mistakes British Bakers Make (And How to Fix Them) Sourdough has had quite the moment in Britain. From the first lockdown bread-baking frenzy to the now-permanent shelves of starter kits at Lakeland and Waitrose, millions…
How to Start a Sourdough Starter with UK Flour: A Step-by-Step Guide Making sourdough bread starts long before you shape a loaf. It starts with a starter — a live, bubbling culture of wild yeast and bacteria that you build…
The Complete Beginner’s Guide to Sourdough Bread Baking in the UK Sourdough bread has had something of a renaissance in British kitchens over the past decade. What was once the preserve of artisan bakeries in East London or Edinburgh’s independent…
How to Score Sourdough Bread: Patterns, Tools, and Timing Scoring sourdough bread is one of those skills that looks purely decorative from the outside but is, in practice, one of the most functional steps in the entire baking process. That…
The Ultimate Guide to Bread Scoring The first time I slashed a loaf of sourdough, I held the blade at the wrong angle, dragged it too slowly, and watched the dough tear rather than part cleanly. The bread still tasted…
Sourdough Pizza Dough Secrets: What Experts Don’t Tell You There is a moment — and if you have ever made it right, you know exactly what I am talking about — when you pull a sourdough pizza from the oven…