Sourdough starter cultures are living organisms requiring food and water to thrive. If your sourdough bread is turning out flat, you HAVE to start with your ingredients. If you are having serious issues, you may like to also read 4 Key reasons why your sourdough bread is flat. You may like to bookmark this page to refer to as often as you like, as you walk out the magical sourdough journey. Common sense for the common kitchen so you can make successful sourdough bread at home easily and be proud of it! We won’t use a whole lot of science (if any at all) and NO bakers percentages! If you’re after the nitty-gritty, sorry! This is going to be simple. I’m going to help you understand what makes sourdough bread go flat and how to fix it. Here’s the good news in that – I’ve messed with the sourdough bread making process so much, that I know intimately, just about every reason for flat sourdough bread and how to avoid it easily. Only now it’s usually when I deviate from what I know, just a bit too much! Even now, after nearly 15 years of baking, hacking, complicating and simplifying sourdough (only to still fall in love with it all over again each time!) I too can produce sourdough bread that’s flat. I don’t know how many times I’ve been there, in your shoes.

Pantry Sourdough Starter – Bread Recipe.

Low-Maintenance Sourdough Starter ~ Bread Recipe.

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