Additionally, make sure not to add hot water to your starter. Yeast dies at 130 degrees Fahrenheit, which isn't even boiling. If the water feels hot to the touch, it is too hot for a starter.

There’s nothing quite like a fresh loaf of sourdough bread. And while all things sourdough have led to an explosion in ...

We are creating an environment for yeast cells to live in, multiply and generally be happy. To achieve this we need to make four key things available to our starter. Temperature: 24°C is the ...

To make sourdough bread you need to use a ‘starter’ mixture that takes the place of yeast. The starter takes about 5 days to develop (or you can buy it online), but once you have it you can ...

Before commercial yeast became available, bakers would use a bubbling mixture of yeasts and bacteria (a leaven) to both aerate the crumb and give a sharper flavour to the wheat. You can make your ...