The Sourdough School

Baking eating and sharing bread to improve physical and mental health

Using a robust evidence-based baking protocol combining the evidence of thousands of years of baking with modern clinical insights, we offer comprehensive training to bakers and healthcare professionals, providing students with the tools to use baking in everyday practice as a wellness intervention.
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Baking as Lifestyle Medicine for Bakers and Clinicians

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Troubleshooting Library

Estimated total time: 3 hours 10 mins.

open crumb sourdough

An Amazing Technique to Opening Up the Crumb – with Roller Milled Wholegrain Flour

What If I am Having a Problem with My Baking?

Big holes in Sourdough

Why Aren’t I Getting Big Holes?

My Top Tips to Bake Great Sourdough Baguettes

flat sourdough loaf

Why is my Sourdough Loaf Flat?

bubbles in sourdough starter

How to Recognise if a Sourdough Starter is Ready to Use?

Blending Flour

How to best add inclusions to sourdough

Vanessa Kimbell with a sourdough loaf

Why Do Things Go Wrong?

starter

Have I Killed My Sourdough Starter?

open crumb structure

Open Crumb Structure

Lessons in Troubleshooting Sourdough Starters

Oxidising and Over-oxidisation of Flour

Shaping Croissants & Pains Au Chocolat

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