EP: 455 Tips EVERYONE Should Know BEFORE Baking with Sourdough

Pioneering Today

Melissa K Norris

Cookingfromscratch, Oldfashionedliving, Selfsufficiency, Home & Garden, Gardening, Heirloomseeds, Homesteading, Growyourownfood, Education, Survival, Pioneeringtoday, Leisure, How To

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🗓️ 24 January 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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If you're listening to this podcast, you're probably thinking that sourdough baking is something you'd like to try. Hesitate no more, and let me assure you that baking with sourdough is 100% worth the effort to learn and implement into your daily life. Snag some of my best tips in today’s podcast, then sign up for my upcoming FREE webinar where I'm sharing nine easy tips for sourdough to bake like a pro at home.

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0:00.0	Hey, pioneers, welcome to episode number 455.
0:11.0	I'm going to be sharing with you today the things that I started doing differently that completely changed my journey with sourdough in the hopes that it will also have the same benefit
0:23.5	and effects on you and your sourdough journey. I feel like sourdough is one of those things that
0:30.5	you really either love and you want to do it and you're intimidated or you've tried it and you've
0:37.4	had failure and you're like,
0:39.0	I really don't get what everybody's talking about. Like, this doesn't work for me. I went through a ton of
0:44.7	flour or it feels it was super time consuming and I didn't get the results that I wanted. Those kind of
0:51.1	seem like the three scenarios that I hear and I have been in all three of those places.
0:57.0	So I wanted to just walk you through what my journey with sourdough looks, has looked like in where I've landed today to give you some hopes and some pointers so that you also can be at that place where you're like, sourdough is awesome and amazing.
1:11.8	And it doesn't take a ton of time or a ton of flour.
1:14.9	And I get the predictable, I think that's key, awesome results, no matter what type of sourdough
1:21.8	recipe I'm making every single time.
1:25.7	So sourdough is 100% worth it for those of you who are like, I don't really
1:31.2	know, is it like really all it's cracked up to be or not? I want to like, rest assured it is absolutely
1:38.1	worth it. It's the way historically people have been making bread really since the dawn of humanity.
1:49.0	Because we only have what we know is our little instant yeast packets now since about the 1940s.
1:57.0	Prior to that, you were pretty much using sourdough or making other forms of homemade yeast.
2:01.6	Sourdough is one of the most universal and easy ways to capture the yeast and the bacteria that are already naturally in the environment.
2:09.6	And you're basically creating this really nice little environment for them where they're all happy, like this little home forum,
2:15.6	and then they will proliferate and become
2:17.9	this wonderful culture that we call sourdough.
2:22.1	So one of the reasons sourdough is so amazing is not just because it cuts out the need for
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