Food & Fermentation
Sourdough Baking
Bake an open-crumb sourdough boule from your own starter
12 lessons4 modules9h 25m durationbeginner level
About this course
Learn to bake genuine naturally leavened sourdough at home using the same fermentation control and dough handling that professional bakeries rely on, scaled to a kitchen oven. You will raise a starter from scratch, weigh ingredients by baker's percentage, run an autolyse, develop dough with stretch-and-fold instead of kneading, bulk ferment to a measured rise, shape a boule, cold retard overnight, score, and bake under a Dutch oven for steam. Every step is tied to a measurable target such as percent rise, dough temperature, or hydration, so you can diagnose a flat loaf instead of guessing.
Curriculum
Module 1: The Starter: Building and Keeping Your Wild Yeast
- What a Starter Is and How to Build One in Seven DaysPreview
- Daily Feeding, Ratios, and the Float Test🔒
- Storing, Reviving, and Troubleshooting a Starter🔒
Module 2: Ingredients and the Formula: Flour, Water, and Baker's Percentages
- Flour Selection: Protein, Whole Grain, and Brand🔒
- Hydration and Baker's Percentages🔒
- Building the Levain and Timing the Bake🔒
Module 3: Mixing and Bulk Fermentation: Autolyse to Stretch-and-Fold
- Autolyse and the First Mix🔒
- Stretch-and-Fold: Building Strength Without Kneading🔒
- Judging Bulk Fermentation by Rise and Temperature🔒
Module 4: Shaping, Retarding, Scoring, and Baking
- Pre-Shaping and Shaping a Boule🔒
- Cold Retard and Scoring🔒
- Dutch Oven Baking and Crumb Troubleshooting🔒
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