Bread Baking: Beginner Sourdough Bread Workshop

Kristin "Baker Bettie" Hoffman is a trained chef, baking instructor, and the owner of the popular baking resource website BakerBettie.com. Kristin aims to break down the basics of baking and teach approachable baking science to promote confidence in the kitchen.

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This class is an in depth hands on class that introduces the theory and techniques behind maintaining and baking with a sourdough starter.

Get in the Kitchen

This is an introductory class aimed at building a baseline understanding of how a sourdough culture works, how to maintain it, and how to bake with it. There is a lot of confusing information out there about sourdough, and this class is aimed to help simplify things for the home baker. IN THIS CLASS WE WILL COVER: <ul><li>What exactly is a sourdough starter? </li><li>How to start your own starter from scratch</li><li>How to maintain a sourdough starter</li><li>Understanding bread ratios and how to change them</li><li>The basic process of creating a sourdough loaf</li><li>Making a basic rustic boule from start to finish </li><li>How to create tension when shaping</li><li>Sourdough Focaccia</li><li>Baking methods</li><li>How to use your sourdough discard</li></ul>YOUR TICKET INCLUDES<ul><li>A four hour relaxed hands on class </li><li>Sourdough bread with accompaniments and coffee to snack on during the class</li><li>Bread samples to take home with you and some of my own sourdough starter to get you going</li><li>A dough that you made during class that is not fully fermented for you to take and bake at home</li><li>A banneton basket for you to proof your shaped dough in </li><li>A bread lame and dough scraper</li></ul>

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