Sourdough Bread Baking 102

What you'll learn

🎂 Discover innovative baking techniques, breaking away from conventional methods to expand your culinary skills.
🥖 Master the art of gluten washing, identify gluten and starch, and evaluate flour fitness for perfect bread-making!
📜 Gain access to exclusive printable recipes for Ciabatta, sourdough pancakes, and various hydration-level sourdough breads.
🌾 Elevate your knowledge of sourdough starter stages to improve your baking process.
🔧 Learn essential tips for correcting baking formula errors effectively.
🧪 Understand easy methods to test the strength of local flour for bread-making excellence.

Course Content

Welcome!

3 lectures

Welcome to Exploring Sourdough!

Welcome to Sourdough Bread Baking Exploration. We will be exploring different aspects of flour, protein, gluten, hydration and seeing the different stages of a sourdough starter. We will also be baking bread while we experiment. Let's have some fun!

Make Your Own Sourdough Starter With Me!

You will need a sourdough starter to follow in this course. The video series in this lecture will help you get your own sourdough starter going and show you how to take care of it, how to make sourdough waffles and bread!

Make Your Own Sourdough Starter Booklet.

Get started by viewing the video series, "Make Your Own Sourdough Starter With Me!" and by downloading the free book.

Testing the Protein & Quality of Flour

9 lectures

Test Your Flour Quality

Let's test the local flour you have available to you and see if it's able to bake up a loaf of bread. This is a quick easy test to help you determine the quality of a flour especially if you don't know how strong it is and whether it can be used to make bread with.

Testing Flour for Protein Quality

In this lecture we will begin our test of four different types of flour to determine their quality and whether we can use the flour to make bread with. We will bring the flour to 70% hydration and allow it to set for 30 minutes.

Protein - Gluten After 30 Minutes.

After 30 minutes we will do a windowpane test to see how the gluten bonding is coming along and determine after such a short time, how strong the gluten already is.

Protein - Gluten After 60 Minutes.

After 60 minutes we will test the strength of the gluten again and talk about ways to protect the gluten in weak dough.

Protein - Some Tips

Let's take a minute to talk about hydration in dough and also share a few tips.

Protein - Four Flour Test Bread Formula

After the flour test we will be mixing the doughs together and making a loaf of sourdough bread from it. This lecture is the formula for the bread (or the instructions to turn our test into a loaf!) Everyone's bread will come out different depending upon what type of flour they tested. Look forward to having a lot of fun with this experiment.

Protein - Let's Make a Loaf of Bread!

Let's have fun with the test dough and make a loaf of sourdough bread out of it!

Protein - Folding the Dough

We will fold the dough a few times during bulk ferment and then shape our loaf and refrigerate it when it's done fermenting.

Protein - Finish up the Dough and Bake!

Refrigerate the dough overnight and then bake it the next morning.

Gluten Washing - Discover Gluten

5 lectures

Gluten Washing - Explore Gluten

Follow the formula to make the dough at 66% hydration and then do the gluten washing.

Gluten Washing - Make the Dough

Mix four different types of dough for the Gluten Washing experiment.

Gluten Washing - Fold the Dough

To develop the gluten before we wash it, fold the dough at least once.

Gluten Washing - Let's Wash the Dough

Let's wash the dough and uncover the gluten. This is the fun part!

Gluten Washing - The Results

Examine the gluten and see how it looks and how it acts. You can also see the starch that was washed out.

Recover from a Mistake - Ciabatta Bread

6 lectures

Recover From a Mistake - What Happened?

While trying to make test boules to compare All Purpose flour vs Bread Flour, I made a mistake with my hydration calculator. I ended up with 92% hydration dough. Follow as I fix my mistake by making Ciabatta bread.

Recovered Sourdough Ciabatta Bread Formula

This 92% hydration Ciabatta bread was made as the result of a mistake. It is terrific! Here is the formula and downloadable printout formula.

Recover From a Mistake - Develop the Gluten

Fold the dough and develop the gluten structure.

Recover From a Mistake - Final Proofing and Shaping

The dough is now ready to final proof and shape. It's the other way around for this Ciabatta bread!

Recover From a Mistake - Shaping and Baking Ciabatta Bread

Shape your Ciabatta loaves and get them into the oven to bake.

Recover From a Mistake - Final Ciabatta Loaves

Bake the rest of the Ciabatta loaves and once they are cool, slice into them! Big holes make great craters for butter!

All Purpose Flour vs Bread Flour - At Different Hydrations

16 lectures

Compare Flour 10% Protein and 13% Protein

What do you think will happen during the experiment? How will a lower protein flour compare to a higher protein flour? The results might surprise you.

Formula for Comparison Loaves 1

After making a mistake the first time I did this experiment and made Ciabatta instead, I redid the experiment here to compare All Purpose flour with Bread flour.

Comparison - Make All Purpose Flour Dough

Start by making the first loaf with all purpose flour. This dough is at 68% hydration and the protein content is at 10%

Comparison - Make the Rest of the Dough

Now we'll make the next two loaves following the exact same formula as the all purpose loaf. These loaves will be a blend of all purpose and bread flour and also just bread flour.

Comparison - One Hour Later - Fold Dough

Let's warm up the dough and finish the bulk ferment. We'll follow what each dough looks like and how it acts.

Comparison - 4 - Warm Up and Bulk Ferment

After refrigeration, take out the dough and let it warm up and bulk ferment.

Comparison - 5- End of Bulk Ferment

See what dough looks like when it's done bulk fermenting.

Comparison - 6- Shaping the Loaves

We'll shape our batards and proof them.

Comparison - 7- Score and Bake

Score and then bake the loaves and see how they turn out.

Comparison - 8- The Finished Loaves

It's time to compare the finished loaves, what are the differences?

Formula for Higher Hydration Loaves 2

Now let's do the loaves again and use a higher hydration to see what happens. Can you make a loaf using all purpose flour and a higher hydration?

Comparison 9- All Purpose Flour vs Bread Flour - 78% Hydration

See how the flours perform with a higher hydration dough at 78%

Comparison - Double Hydration and Higher Hydration

In this formula I used a higher quality bread flour called Morbread flour and took it to an even higher hydration level of 88% I also used a double hydration method and an autolyse to help the gluten bond better before adding the additional water, starter and salt.

Comparison - 88% Hydration Dough

Let's go even higher in hydration. This time I'm using a great quality flour an autolyse and double hydration. We'll take the hydration to 88% this time.

Comparison - Let's Bake Our High Hydration Loaf

Let's bake up our high hydration loaf and slice into it.

What Do You Think?

Now that the experiment is over what do you think? See some suggestions for using low or high protein flours.

The Life Cycle of a Sourdough Starter

6 lectures

Life Cycle of a Starter - Stage 1 Feeding

The first stage of a sourdough starter life cycle is when you feed it.

An Easy Pancake Formula from Discard

I mentioned that I made pancakes from the discard when I was filming stage one. Here is the pancake formula I used to make the pancakes. The formula is simple and easy to throw together and tastes delicious.

Life Cycle of a Starter - Stage 2 Before Peak

The second stage of a sourdough starter is before peak and after feeding.

Life Cycle of a Starter - Stage 3 Peak

The third stage of a sourdough starter is peak.

Life Cycle of a Starter - Stage 4 After Peak

See what the peak stage looks like and what happens after.

Life Cycle of a Starter - Stage 5 Demise

The fifth stage of a sourdough starter is it's decline and demise.

Conclusion

2 lectures

Thank You for Joining Me!

Thank you for joining me in exploring sourdough! I had a lot of fun and I hope you did too!

Bonus Lecture

Description

Course Last Updated: 5/10/2021

Welcome to an exciting journey into the world of sourdough baking! 🍞 Discover the fun behind the "why" of baking, inspired by countless questions I received. This course is perfect for those who have completed the Sourdough Bread Baking 101 and caters to both beginning and intermediate bakers.

No sourdough starter? No problem! I'll guide you step-by-step with helpful videos to create your starter from scratch. Plus, you'll receive a free downloadable e-book to print and keep handy.

Here's what you will learn:

🔍 Protein Quality in Flour: Test and bake with different flours, uncovering how each flour affects your loaf 🥖.
🌾 Gluten Washing: Discover how to extract and analyze gluten and starch from flour.
❗ Recovering from Mistakes: Learn valuable lessons from mishaps and create beautiful Ciabatta bread.
⚖️ All Purpose Flour VS Bread Flour: Conduct three experiments to compare differences, pushing to higher hydration levels with surprising outcomes.
💧Double Hydration Technique: Use high-quality bread flour to bake an impressive 88% hydration loaf.
🌀 Sourdough Starter Life Cycle: Understand its journey from vitality to exhaustion, and transform discards into delightful pancakes.

Additionally, we’ll delve into freezing dough and its effects, how to safeguard gluten in weak doughs, and methods to slow down fermentation. Make sure to check the links in the bonus section.

Let's embark on this delightful sourdough adventure together! 🥯 Join me, and let's bake with passion and precision.

Best,
Teresa

Who this course is for:

Beginners and Intermediate students eager to enhance their baking skills.
Anyone curious to explore the fascinating techniques and methods of sourdough bread baking.

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