What is a stretch and fold? The questions were endless, but about a year ago, I decided to give baking sourdough bread ...

It might look grim, but there's a lot of good sourdough flavor in hooch from the lacto-bacteria. It's part of the hydration in your baker's percentage, which is the ratio of flour to other ...

A sourdough starter is used to cultivate wild ... Don’t worry if this happens – it’s harmless and is referred to as ‘hooch’, which is naturally occurring alcohol. It’s basically ...

Sourdough is on the rise Sourdough baking is surging—60% of bread bakers now maintain an active starter, according to King Arthur’s 2024 Bread Baking Survey. In the past year alone, ...

The questions were endless, but about a year ago, I decided to give baking sourdough bread another chance. Shockingly, the untouched starter was fine. The liquid, I learned, was hooch, an alcohol ...