A tweet about someone's nice looking home baked sourdough loaf led me to a site with a post called "Beginner's Sourdough Bread".
The process just looks ridiculously fiddly and time consuming, when I can go buy a very nice loaf from a specialist bakery for $6 or $7. Mind you, I don't have a specialist bakery near me, but who knows, that may change.
I think getting into home sourdough making must be something only the retired (or the house-spouse) can have the time to do.
2 comments:
Don't worry about half of the crap on that website Steve. Just pour in the starter with the flour and water and salt, mix it all together. A couple of minutes later give it a bit of a whack about to knead it, and whack it back in the bowl. Eight hours or so later it'll have risen and you can whack it in the oven. The added steps on that website are just needless complications to what is a very simple process (adding yeast to a carbohydrate and letting it do its work).
I think the guy on the site made mention of being an engineer, which may account for a lot of the technical excess.
You make a decent sourdough, do you Tim? Would the starter survive two days in the mail at this time of year, I wonder?
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