As I mentioned in our article about Bill’s sourdough pizza dough, he learned how to make a sourdough starter while taking a ...

Yeast is a crucial ingredient in pizza dough that gives it the necessary rise and chewiness. Luckily, if you don't have yeast ...

Step 1: The night before you bake: Mix 25 grams of white flour, 25 grams of wheat flour, and 50 grams of water with a ...

It is this which makes the bread rise, instead of adding yeast. Hobbs House Bakery A sourdough starter culture takes days to develop before being mixed with flour, water and salt to create the ...

You know how you have to water plants regularly to keep them alive? Well, it’s kind of the same with a sourdough starter — ...

Baking sourdough bread can be a rewarding but sometimes tricky process. Success lies in knowing the essential ingredients, ...

which means bacteria and yeast multiply in it as they feed on the flour. This sounds gross, but they’re harmless, and they’re what gives sourdough its unique taste. Image caption, Starter ...

One of the unexpected side effects of our this pandemic is a sudden growth in the global population of captive colonies of Lactobacillus bacteria and yeast. Also known as sourdough starters ...

Sourdough breads are leavened not by the addition of brewers yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae), but by the inclusion of a starter, a vibrant ecosystem of wild yeasts that is carefully nurtured ...

The process of making sourdough bread begins with a sourdough starter. These starters are created when microbes— communities of bacteria and yeast—stabilize in a flour and water mixture.