In this video, I’ll guide you through 18 essential sourdough basics – from starter care to baking the perfect loaf. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced baker, these tips will help you avoid common mistakes, improve your technique, and create delicious bread every time.
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:15 Easy starter with whole-grain flour
1:10 Your starter thrives when you bake often
2:09 Active starter = happy baker
3:09 Great flour = great bread
3:59 Sourdough beyond the classic loaf
5:08 Know your recipe
6:21 Less water = happier yeast and happier you
9:20 Knead smarter & save time
10:03 Fermentolyse vs autolyse
11:23 Know when to stretch and fold
13:01 Know when your fermentation is done
14:18 Use your dough as next starter
16:09 Divide and preshape only when kneaded
17:19 Only add flour for shaping
18:03 Perfect proofing with a fridge
19:09 Steam for perfect bread
20:07 Don’t slice too fast
20:29 Read your dough’s crumb structure
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You can read my book for free here: https://www.the-sourdough-framework.com/
There's the hardcover version available here (in case you want to support me): https://breadco.de/hardcover-book
And there's a super short condensed version for you to print at home (TLDR): https://breadco.de/tldr
Happy baking all of you. No matter how your bread turns out, every homemade bread is a win!
Every video so far about sourdough sounds so complicated!! 😢 and confusing
Literally nothing risky about slight over fermentation. Reeee
Even after baking with sourdough starter for 25 years I found this video to be VERY helpful.
Thank you.
(all fridges have 'coldest place' – mine is rear-middle-left)
If I use a rye flour with 7-8% protein, should I not let my sourdough starter / leavin grow more than 20-25% before I put it in the fridge?
Yeeeees! Keep the little mistakes and miss-speeches, it's sooo good. I laughed out loud (laughing WITH you) many times, and it's such an uplift from all the overproduced shit on Youtube. You earned yourself a sub! Also, great information, you're helping me so much in my sourdough journey. Much love from Sweden!
I love your explanation of the theory of relativity. Thank you. 😅
"I super loaf that" – that line sold me.
as an expérienced sour baker myself, I'm glad to be aligned with your recommandations 👍🏼 extra tips : you can manipulate the dough with wet hands, it's super effective.
It feels like the bread baking is an engineering process with all those frameworks , graphics and tables. And it’s so natural for the German guy to explain the information in this structured way. Love it ❤
This is a great video! I have two separate starters—a standard sourdough and a potato sourdough. It takes some getting used to, but this video really helps clear up a lit of the noise surrounding common sourdough topics (I'm a fermentolyse gal)
How to make sourdough bread without that sour taste?
I tasted from bakeries from my area. Their sourdough bread , smell sour like rotten , and it taste super sour. And fyi I am from Asia. I only ate 1 time I sourdough didn't like it.
It taste super sour , smell like garbage or something rotten. This is from a bakery so yeah. I do not know weather it supposed to taste like that.
How does sour dough smell like? Taste like? Is it how I describe?
Usually when I make bread I use instant dry yeast. And I been avoiding sourdough for quite sometime. But I do want to venture in.
But I want to try and make it my own. But I am afraid it will become mouldy or become too sour etc.
I live in Malaysia where is hot and humid. So yeah.
I gonna try to make sourdough bread.
Fyi usually room temperature in the morning around 28C and in the afternoon hover around 32C to 37C depending on how hot the day is. Recently it's been consistently around 37C.
And it's very humid in doors.
So yeah. If I leave the sour dough starter at room temp. Will it spoil? Or it thrive in hot weather?
I make a poolish; 150 gms water, 150 gms AP flour and 3 grms of yeast. leave it in the refrigerator overnight, ready in the morning.
Thank you ❤
So informative! This video explains all the things I've been intuitively for years. So helpful.
Hi the PDF book is corrupt. Most images are missing.
Pena que não deu pra entender nada
I REALLY APPRECIATE THE PDF BOOK, THANK YOU SO MUCH
Great…..so informative 🙏👍
Just discovered this channel and of course it‘s a German 😂 We are the nation of great Bäcker hehe wherever I go, I always miss German bread
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What baking stone are you using?
Dude! You are the GOAT!!! I’ve tried everything and your approach is so easy to follow that it came our perfect first try!!! Thanks so much!!
6:10– I heard it as… "I super loaf that." ❤
If you have to debug your bread, you should probably clean your kitchen.
It's so nice to see how people's eyes light up when they do what they love
Wooooooow likeeeee 🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽
Really enjoying your 18 hints….VERY informative . My question………Where can I get that TOTALLY cool sweatshirt you're wearing?!?!?! I've helped a few people become sourdough bakers and we'd wear that shirt with pride!
Came for the bread, stayed for the puns. So great 😂
I'm making my 4th loaf of bread today!
Good to see back. I’ve watched you often a few years ago.
I use a 100% rye flour levain, it’s like rocket fuel. Agree on the whole rye.
1 hour? just wait 15 min and eat it hot
Why won't my starter rise its been 21 day at least i have whole wheat then i started a 50/50 whole wheat with bread flour which is at 7 days and now i have started an all-bread flour on day 4. I've done 1/1/1, 1/2/2, 2/2/1. Smell great lots of bubbles but no rise other than all bread flour starter on first 3 days now I'm in the dormant stage on that one. I'm impatiently waiting but I just want it to hurry up already 😂😂😂
Great video, very valuable and helpful!!! I just started (3 batches done, wip on the 4th) making sourdough bread, trying to make reproducible breads. So far, every batch is better than the previous. Shaping the dough still is the biggest challenge. And cleaning the workbench and used materials 😏. Any tip on that aspect of the process?
Chef,my four does not have 😊bran in it. Will that affect my starter?
great channel