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Sourdough Skills & Bread Basics

This is your home for sourdough skills and bread basics!

Here, you will find tutorials for how to make a sourdough starter, a weekly starter feeding routine, how to stretch and fold dough, and more.

Sourdough Starter Tutorials

Learn how to make different types of sourdough starters and a simple maintenance routine.

  • Sourdough starter pouring over the edge of a mason jar
    How To Make a Sourdough Starter – Beginner’s Guide
  • A jar of bubbly fresh-milled flour sourdough starter and a wood scoop of rye berries
    Fresh-Milled Flour Sourdough Starter
  • A mason jar with active einkorn sourdough starter, shown with einkorn wheat berries
    Einkorn Sourdough Starter
  • Thick sourdough starter on a spurtle.
    How I Feed My Sourdough Starter Straight from the Fridge

Blocks of frozen sourdough starter in a ziplock bag.

Can You Freeze Sourdough Starter?

Once you make a sourdough starter, freezing it is an easy way to preserve it for up to a year, so you can have a backup or take a baking hiatus. Only 5 minutes of hands-on time!

LEARN HOW

Develop Your Dough Skills

Learn how to work with dough like a pro with these tips and tutorials.

  • Hands stretching sourdough dough out a glass bowl
    How to Stretch and Fold Sourdough
  • Sourdough dough in a bowl, prepped for freezing.
    How to Freeze Sourdough Dough
  • How To Do the Windowpane Test for Dough
  • How Long Can Sourdough Dough Stay in the Fridge?

Sourdough Hacks

These little sourdough secrets make baking so much easier!

  • A slice of sourdough bread with a boule and flower in the background
    How to Make Sourdough Less Sour (Includes Recipe!)
  • How To Freeze Sourdough Bread – 2 Easy Methods!
  • A mom and daughter making sourdough bread together
    Time-Saving Sourdough Secrets for Busy Moms
  • How To Convert Any Yeast Bread Recipe to Sourdough

More Sourdough & Bread Tutorials

  • A collage of sourdough supplies showing jars, a spurtle, lid, and flour
    Sourdough Starter Supply List
  • Collage of sourdough starter, bread, flour, and dough. Text overlay: "Sourdough Tips for Beginner Bakers."
    Essential Sourdough Tips & Tools for Beginners
  • Close-up of freshly milled flour in a hand, with a grain mill and bowl of flour in the background
    How To Mill Your Own Flour at Home – Beginner’s Guide
  • Sourdough discard and baking ingredients with flowers on a countertop.
    How To Add Sourdough Discard to Any Recipe (Grams & Cups Explained!)
  • Collage of sourdough baking essentials, including a banneton with dough, a Brod & Taylor proofing box, artisan bread with floral and heart patterns, a loaf pan with bread, a mason jar of flour, a grain mill, baking tools, and a person holding a white Dutch oven.
    Gift Guide and Ideas for Sourdough Bakers (2024)
  • Sourdough pumpkin on a cooling rack
    Pumpkin-Shaped Sourdough Bread
  • A small bowl of bran and two measuring cups of flour
    What Types of Flour Can You Feed Sourdough Starter?
  • How Long Can Sourdough Starter Stay in the Fridge?
  • Blocks of frozen sourdough starter in a ziplock bag.
    Can You Freeze Sourdough Starter?
  • Brod & Taylor proofing box with two sourdough boules
    Brod & Taylor Proofer – Review
  • Sourdough bread with stenciled leaves and shown with bread stencil
    How to Use a Bread Stencil – Easy Sourdough Art
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