Salt, Water, Yeast, Flour
Sourdough breads are all pretty much just salt, water, yeast/starter, and flour. Sometimes I need to increase or decrease the total amount but keep the ratios the same. I had a spreadsheet for this but decided to make it a web-form to have available and some others might find...
Tare
Here’s a helpful tip, either write on your bowls the weight of them or keep a list somewhere — that way you can just plop it down on the scale and know the weight of the contents by doing some simple math. Need to know how much that dough...
Consistency
There’s an old saying: “A person with one watch knows what time it is. A person with two watches is never sure.” The Internet has made this more true and more broad than ever. I can look at three different weather websites and get three different current temperatures for...
So Someone Gave You Some Sourdough Starter
I get asked for starter a fair bit since I’ve had mine going for a couple of years now. Five? I think five. So you got some from me or from someone else. Great! Now what? Step One: Naming Your Starter Every starter must have a name. “Starter” is...
Unusable Websites
Look, I get it: A website costs money and you’d like to cover your costs and maybe make a profit. I get it. However, if you’ve got so many ads — popup, pop-in, sidebar, middle-of-article — on the site that it’s virtually unusable, you suck. And if you’ve got...