The summary you need:
- Sourdough is made of flour, water, and sourdough starter.
- 'Sourdough starter' is just more flour and water, which you've mixed up and left for a bit.
- It's way easier to make than you think.
The BullSh#t-free guide to sourdough.
I am not a pro. I'm just a guy who wanted to make pizza, and this is just how I do things. Your results may vary.
This no-bullsh#t guide came about after I stumbled through lectures from hipster bakers and overly chatty homemakers, and got bamboozled by the secret language of levain and the bread lame. (Pronounced 'larm', not 'laym', if you were wondering).
Perhaps you too have endured all of that only to be frustrated by ads, mailing list popups, and videos you didn't ask for, making sites unreadable, forcing you to scroll and scroll (and scroll) past virus-laden adverts for wart medication and celebrity clickbait - just to find the damned ingredients.
...and they're in the wrong units anyway.
Perhaps they're in European and you want Freedom Units. What the hell is a kilogram, indeed.
Or maybe you find yourself confused by cups. How big is this cup? I have cups. Which one should I use, exactly?
Well, weary traveller; you'll find none of that BullSh#t here.
The steps you've been looking for:
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Starter - Start here. Obviously.
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Bread - Made or been given a starter? Go forth and bake.
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Behold what you've acheived. If you want to go further and you're a pizza fiend like me, I gotchu, fam. Click on the imaginatively titled:
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Pizza - For all your pizzaiolo needs. It's bellissimo without the BullSh#t.