There’s something grounding about creating your own sourdough starter from nothing more than whole wheat flour and water.

Sourdough does everything - leavens the bread, adds a more complex flavour than any other leavening agent, makes the ingredients more accessible to our bodies, and keeps the bread fresher longer, says ...

Well, 2025 was the year I learned the error of my ways, and gave into the sourdough hype. And not only is this hobby a lot ...

A sourdough starter, pork loin sandwiches, and a side of Asian slaw. A five-day sourdough starter to use in two different recipes; brining and smoking a pork loin for a thin-sliced pork sandwich with ...

James Beard said it: “Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods.” And almost no bread tastes better than a hot, crusty loaf pulled from your own oven, made by your own hands ...

A sourdough starter is far more than just a substitute for store-bought yeast. For Christine Sunu, each starter is a spectacle of life: Feed it water and flour consistently, and it will become a ...

Everybody's stress baking these days. Making a crusty, pillow-shaped loaf of sourdough bread that looks as good as it tastes seems to be the ultimate, Instagram-worthy achievement for many aspiring ...

For many people, spending more time at home over the past several weeks has opened up new opportunities to hone their domestic skills. As evidenced by Google's top recipe searches recently, one of ...

To make your own sourdough starter, you need only repeat what ancient bakers discovered entirely by accident. The precise measurements are not essential. You are reproducing a technique that is 6,000 ...

If you buy something from a link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. For those who have somehow missed out on the baking-at-home boom (a trend so pervasive that Google searches ...