One small step for a sourdough baker...

...one giant leap for aspiring bakers!

I am a novice sourdough baker. I’ve been baking sourdough for about 35 years but was doing it all wrong. Thanks to TFL experts I have been making progress and come into the light. Or at least into the penumbra.

To distill it down to a vital essence: It’s all about consistency, repeat-ability... that is being able to produce the same (desired) result over and over again.

I have been hampered in my experimentation by being limited to baking about once a month. I’m guessing that some/many/most of the other novices are baking more like once a week. So by my calculation I’m only about 8 months into a quest that started 33 months ago.

I’m closing in on it. I have thought I was close as far back as 18 months ago, but no...

This past week I have baked three separate loaves of sourdough on different days using the same methods, with near-enough identical results. I’m guardedly optimistic about this.

This is loaf #3:

Thanks for looking and best wishes. Dave

Sic Semper Panem!