Let’s hope though, there won’t be a ‘next time’. You may like to bookmark this page to refer to as often as you like, as you walk out the magical sourdough journey. Next time though, your sourdough bread might be flat might be for a completely different reason. It’s important to understand each one because your bread might be flat this time due to just one, or a combination of them. The top half is semi bread-like but the bottom half… well, it’s like a surfboard.Įvery issue with flat sourdough bread will fall into one of these four categories:
It’s flat and dense, and not the good kind of flat either, not like tortilla flat, no…. And knowing what happened, when your beloved sourdough bread comes out flat can be tricky to work out.įresh from the oven, sometimes it just doesn’t rise at all. While it will rise, sourdough bread by nature doesn’t rise as much as bread made with bakers yeast. But when you know how to navigate them, making sourdough bread is much tastier, better for you and can be much more flexible than making yeasted bread. Sourdough takes longer than yeasted bread and can have a few tender pitfalls. You just need to understand how this living, breathing, fermenting wonder works. Relying on wild yeast to rise to each loaf, sourdough bread is a natural yet reasonably predictable process. Even for me, and I have been baking and hacking sourdough bread for more than a decade. I’ve been there.Ĭan I let you in on something? Behind every perfect Instagram loaf and facebook-famous sourdough, post are 5, 15, even 50 sourdough bread fails. Your much-anticipated loaf can look incredible, but when you cut it, ready to eat, you discover that your sourdough bread is flat.
Making your own sourdough bread is a great privilege.
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