Sourdough is high maintenance but not hard
32sContradicts common belief that sourdough is difficult, sparking curiosity and engagement.
▶ Play ClipThis video is a beginner-friendly sourdough bread tutorial that breaks down the process into 10 easy steps over two days. The creator emphasizes that while sourdough seems high-maintenance, it's actually simple and forgiving, with tips like using a scale, feeding starter 1:1, and avoiding common mistakes like pouring discard down the drain.
Use a 1:1:1 ratio of starter, flour, and water by weight. Warm water speeds up fermentation. Never pour discard down the sink.
Combine starter, water, flour, and salt in that order. Mix until shaggy, then rest 1 hour.
Four sets of four stretches, each set 30 minutes apart. Add small inclusions during stretch and folds, large chunks during shaping.
Bulk ferment 4 hours until puffy. Shape by laminating, folding in thirds, and rolling. Cold proof overnight (8–12 hours).
Preheat oven and Dutch oven to 450°F. Score at 30–45° angle. Bake covered 35 min, uncovered 3–5 min. Cool 1 hour before slicing.
"The title is ironic; the tutorial is actually fun and detailed, not boring at all."
What ratio is used to feed a sourdough starter?
A 1:1:1 ratio of starter, flour, and water by weight.
1:54
How should you dispose of sourdough discard?
Never pour it down the sink; throw it in the trash.
1:46
How long does it take for a fed starter to become active?
About 4 hours, or until it doubles or triples in size.
4:19
What is the recommended stretch and fold routine?
Four sets of four stretches, each set 30 minutes apart.
11:59
When should you add small vs. large inclusions to sourdough?
Small items during stretch and folds; large chunks during shaping.
14:20
How long should shaped loaves cold proof?
8–12 hours (overnight) in the refrigerator.
24:14
What temperature should the oven be for baking sourdough?
450°F (232°C) with the Dutch oven preheated inside.
24:41
What is the baking time and method for sourdough in a Dutch oven?
Covered for 35 minutes, then uncovered for 3–5 minutes.
27:04
What angle should you score sourdough to get a good ear?
At a 30–45° angle, not straight down.
31:23
How long should sourdough cool before slicing?
At least 1 hour to set the crumb.
29:15
Feeding starter 1:1:1
Simplifies the starter maintenance process, making it accessible for beginners.
1:54Never pour discard down sink
Prevents plumbing issues, a common mistake for new sourdough bakers.
1:46Stretch and fold routine
Builds gluten without kneading, a key technique for no-knead bread.
11:59When to add inclusions
Practical tip for evenly distributing mix-ins based on size.
14:20Sourdough is foolproof
Encourages experimentation and reduces fear of failure for beginners.
29:08[00:00] Hello and welcome to my series, a very
[00:01] boring tutorial where I feel like I kind
[00:03] of know how to do something. So, I'm
[00:04] going to try to show you how I do that
[00:05] thing. And today, we're going to be
[00:07] making sourdough bread. Sourdough bread
[00:08] is actually very high maintenance and
[00:10] there's a lot to know. At the same time,
[00:12] you really don't need to know that much
[00:13] to just make the bread. So, I'm going to
[00:15] try to find a good balance between
[00:16] sharing what I've learned and just
[00:18] showing you how to make bread. We're
[00:19] going to set the mood of a nice rainy
[00:22] Saturday and we're just cozy and we're
[00:24] going to make warm bread. Even though
[00:26] it's like 70° and sunny outside, it's
[00:28] actually rainy in my mind.
[00:34] Okay, so let's get into it. This is my
[00:36] sue chef for the day. His name is Dawn.
[00:42] He left. Sourdough seems like the most
[00:44] complicated bread ever because it is so
[00:45] high maintenance, but it's really not
[00:47] hard. It just takes a lot of time. So,
[00:48] I'm going to show you step by step how
[00:50] to make sourdough bread, and I'm going
[00:51] to try to not over complicate it because
[00:52] I want you to just have good bread.
[00:54] just, you know, enjoy the bread scene.
[00:56] You know, it's cool popping cool popping
[00:59] bread town over here. So, I think that
[01:00] we can break it up into 10 easy steps.
[01:02] Feed wait dough wait stretch
[01:05] weight stretch weight stretch
[01:06] weight, stretch, wait longer, shape,
[01:08] fridge, go to bed, bake. It's that easy.
[01:11] It just takes literally like 2 days. But
[01:13] again, that's why I said today is a
[01:15] casual, rainy, cozy winter Saturday. And
[01:18] tomorrow, we're going to bake on a nice
[01:20] Sunday morning. It's just a perfect
[01:22] weekend activity. So, let's jump into
[01:24] this. Step number one, feed. Sourdough
[01:26] is alive. You have to feed it. And it
[01:28] needs to have a meal before you can cook
[01:30] with it. So, let's give it that meal.
[01:31] Here's my sourdough starter. It's been
[01:33] sitting on the counter, okay? It just
[01:34] looks like flour and water soup because
[01:37] that's exactly what it is. I have it in
[01:38] a clear mason jar so that you can see
[01:39] it, but I usually have it in a red solo
[01:41] cup because then you can just throw it
[01:43] away and you don't have to wash the cup
[01:44] because this is very bad for your drain.
[01:46] Do not ever, ever, ever pour this down
[01:48] your drain or you'll have to call a
[01:49] plumber and then you'll be sad. We're
[01:51] going to feed it a 1:1 ratio. Starter,
[01:54] bread, flour, water. That's it. It
[01:56] doesn't matter how much of each, just
[01:57] the same amount of each of them. I'm
[01:59] going to be giving you a recipe that you
[02:00] can use at home that's going to make two
[02:01] loaves of bread. In this video, I'm
[02:03] going to double that and I'm going to
[02:04] make four loaves. So, when I feed, I'm
[02:06] going to do 180 g of starter, 180 g of
[02:09] flour, and 180 g of water. You doing
[02:11] this at home, just do 100 of each. You
[02:13] know what else I'm going to do? I'm
[02:14] going to make a list of things that you
[02:15] actually need to make sourdough because
[02:16] there's a lot of sourdough stuff that
[02:18] you can buy. You can buy them if you
[02:20] want. They're really fun and they're
[02:21] cute. What you actually need is a scale.
[02:23] Let's just see how much this is.
[02:25] I use King Arthur unbleached bread
[02:27] flour. It looks like this. You can also
[02:30] use unbleached allpurpose flour. I don't
[02:32] think it matters. I think the difference
[02:33] is like the protein content. Maybe the
[02:35] only thing that matters is that it says
[02:37] unbleached. I'm going to add 180 g
[02:41] of flour. A lot of people use cute
[02:44] wooden spoons to mix. I think that's
[02:46] really annoying and hard to clean. I
[02:48] like to use a chopstick cuz it's really
[02:49] easy to wipe off with a paper towel. For
[02:51] water, I use bottled water. I live in
[02:53] Nevada and so the sink water here is
[02:54] really, really gross and I don't want my
[02:55] yummy bread to taste like my nasty sink
[02:57] water. You could also probably use the
[02:59] water from the fridge, but then you'd
[03:01] probably want to microwave it cuz you
[03:02] want to use room temperature or warm
[03:03] water. So, I just use this purified
[03:05] drinking water with minerals added for
[03:07] taste. It's literally just like normal
[03:09] bottled water. If you live in a normal
[03:11] place with like normal sink water that
[03:12] you can casually drink, just use the
[03:14] sink water. It's fine. What I'm going to
[03:15] do is pour it into this cup and then I'm
[03:17] going to microwave it so that it's a
[03:18] little warm because when it's a little
[03:20] warm, it helps this situation just go
[03:22] faster. And we're already dealing with
[03:24] like two-day bread, so anything that can
[03:25] make it go faster is ideal.
[03:28] I poured too much. Oh, I drank too much.
[03:30] Okay, that's perfect. I'm going to
[03:31] microwave this. Ooh, that's super warm.
[03:34] I'm going to put an ice cube in it.
[03:38] And you want it to be a thick pancake
[03:40] consistency. So, for some reason, this
[03:41] is really runny. Maybe cuz I added an
[03:43] extra ice cube. So, I'm just gonna add a
[03:45] little bit extra flour. And this is the
[03:47] consistency that you want.
[03:50] Thick pancake. I'm gonna wipe my
[03:52] chopstick with a paper towel. And now
[03:54] it's basically clean. And I'm not going
[03:56] to get any flour in my sink. So, tada.
[03:58] Congratulations. We have completed step
[04:00] one. My starter is fed. You want it to
[04:02] be covered, but you don't want it to be
[04:03] sealed. So, like if you're using a mason
[04:05] jar, just like put the lid on top. Or
[04:06] this one that I have, instead of sealing
[04:08] the lid on, I just put the lid on upside
[04:11] down. I'm going to take a rubber band
[04:13] and I'm going to put it right where the
[04:15] sourdough is so that I can see how much
[04:17] it grows. So, we fed our little starter
[04:18] baby. It's going to take about 4 hours
[04:20] for it to eat. We'll know that it's
[04:21] finished eating when it has doubled or
[04:23] tripled in size. I have found that
[04:24] Debbie loves to be under the stove light
[04:26] right here. She stays nice and cozy
[04:29] here. You could just leave it on the
[04:30] counter, but if it's cold, everything's
[04:32] going to take longer. So, if your house
[04:33] is cold, like my house is always cold, I
[04:35] like to put it under that light. A lot
[04:37] of people will tell you that you can
[04:38] also put it in the oven turned off with
[04:40] the oven light on. I did that once and I
[04:43] murdered my sourdough starter cuz it got
[04:45] too hot in there. So, I would not
[04:47] recommend that. So, now that you've fed
[04:48] your starter, what are you going to do
[04:49] with the rest of this? Well, I would
[04:50] just throw it away, honestly. But,
[04:51] you'll want to make sure you throw it in
[04:53] the garbage. Do not ever put this in
[04:55] your sink.
[04:57] My garbage is right here, by the way.
[04:58] I'm not dumping this on the floor.
[05:00] Honestly, you could dump it on the floor
[05:01] if you wanted to. As long as you don't
[05:02] put it down your sink, it's fine. Make
[05:04] sure you get as much as you can in the
[05:05] garbage. Wash your dishes in cold water.
[05:07] Hot water will just help it dissolve and
[05:08] it'll go right down your drain. So, cold
[05:10] water is best. And then I also buy these
[05:12] little mesh things that you can put
[05:13] around your drain. When I do my
[05:14] sourdough dishes, I just put this net
[05:16] mesh thing on this and then it catches
[05:18] all of the chunks. And then you just
[05:19] take this out and you throw it away.
[05:22] We're going to wait until this doubles
[05:23] or even triples in size, which is going
[05:25] to take about 4 hours. I'm probably
[05:26] going to go watch an episode of The Real
[05:28] Housewives of Beverly Hills. What are
[05:30] you going to do? So, I said to let it
[05:31] rest for 4 hours. It's only been two and
[05:33] it's already doubled in size. So, you
[05:34] could cook with this now, but I'm going
[05:35] to give it another 2 hours and see if it
[05:37] triples. All right, for you it's been
[05:39] about 2 seconds. For me, it's been about
[05:41] 4 hours. So, welcome back to me. I would
[05:44] like to show you the progress of Debbie.
[05:46] So, you can see she's more than doubled
[05:47] in size. The reason that I left it
[05:49] longer is simply I like to see how big
[05:51] it grows because it's very satisfying to
[05:53] me to see when the dough gets really
[05:54] really big. So, I usually give it the
[05:56] full 4 hours, but honestly, you could
[05:57] cook with it when it doubles in size, I
[05:59] think, and it should be fine. You know
[06:01] what I've learned about sourdough is
[06:02] every single time I make it, I seem to
[06:03] mess up in a different way. And every
[06:05] single time it's turned out completely
[06:06] fine. But now it's time for step three,
[06:08] which is make the dough. When you're
[06:10] making the actual dough, you do need to
[06:12] make sure that you have the exact grams
[06:14] because baking is a science. Big science
[06:17] numbers, big bed big breaking big bread
[06:20] baking numbers. So, the recipe that I'm
[06:23] going to be making today and showing you
[06:24] is from the sourdough mama on Tik Tok.
[06:26] But I do cook it a little bit different
[06:28] from her, but the measurements are her
[06:30] measurements. So, you're going to put
[06:30] your bowl on the scale and then you're
[06:32] going to zero it out. So, it says zero.
[06:34] And then you're going to set it to g.
[06:35] And now you're going to do 250 g. I'm
[06:39] going to do 500. But see, look how cool
[06:41] and bubbly that looks. I love sourdough.
[06:43] Look how sticky that sourdough is. The
[06:45] whisk just like sticks to it like it's
[06:46] spiderweb. After the starter, we're
[06:48] going to put in water and then flour and
[06:49] then salt. One time I put in the salt
[06:51] first and it messed literally everything
[06:52] up and it turned into this weird giant
[06:54] lugie and it was so weird. And then I
[06:56] baked it and it still kind of turned out
[06:57] fine honestly. So, whatever. But I don't
[06:59] really want my bread to look like a
[07:00] lugie this time. So, I'm just going to
[07:02] do water, flour, salt. And then you are
[07:04] going to add 1,000 g of flour. I'm going
[07:06] to add 2,000 g of flour. No, I'm not cuz
[07:09] we're going to do water first cuz that's
[07:10] what I just said and I already forgot.
[07:11] So, now you are going to add 725 g of
[07:14] water. I am going to add
[07:16] do the math 1450 g. I'm going to
[07:19] microwave my water because again, warm
[07:21] water makes everything go faster. Here's
[07:24] my one minute microwave intermission
[07:25] dance.
[07:30] All the way to the floor.
[07:36] Oh, hi Don.
[07:37] >> Help. I'm being attacked. I'm being
[07:39] attacked by a poodle. Uh, help. Please
[07:42] save yourself. Save yourself. Oh, it's
[07:44] done. So, now that I have my lugie milky
[07:47] water, I'm going to show you one of the
[07:49] first accessories that you don't need
[07:50] with sourdough, which is a bread whisk.
[07:52] Now that I have my starter and my water,
[07:54] I'm going to whisk this together. Do you
[07:56] need this? No. You could literally use
[07:58] your fingers. You could also use a fork,
[07:59] but it's kind of fun and cute. Now,
[08:01] you're going to use 1,000 g of flour.
[08:03] I'm going to use 2,000, which is
[08:04] probably going to be this whole thing.
[08:05] Maybe even more.
[08:08] Oh my gosh. 2,300.
[08:12] Okay, let me take some out. I didn't
[08:13] think all that was going to be over
[08:14] 2,000. I honestly feel like your hand is
[08:16] easier than this thing. So, I'm going to
[08:17] do that. And you know what I like doing
[08:19] is using a glove cuz then you don't have
[08:21] to wash your hands after. And it's not
[08:22] like I'm trying to like not be clean and
[08:24] wash my hands, but then you don't have
[08:26] to wash all the dough down your drain.
[08:29] Can you hear that?
[08:32] Does that sound aesthetic? So, I just
[08:34] kind of squeeze the ingredients
[08:37] together. I feel like that works the
[08:38] best for me. And then I'm going to kind
[08:40] of use my fingernails to scratch down
[08:42] the sides of the bowl. Hang on. I need a
[08:45] break. My hand's tired.
[08:48] I could really use a Gatorade.
[08:54] So, you're going to keep mixing this
[08:56] until there's no more like chunks of dry
[08:58] flour. So, this is the consistency. They
[09:00] call it a shaggy dough. Look at this
[09:01] dough. It literally gave me a webbed
[09:03] hand. I probably could have added the
[09:04] salt when I added the flour, but I
[09:06] forgot. So, we'll add it now. I'm going
[09:08] to use 50 g. You are going to use 25.
[09:11] I like sea salt cuz I think it's really
[09:13] yummy, but you could probably use like
[09:14] literally any salt. I don't think it
[09:15] matters at all. And I'm just going to
[09:17] sprinkle it in here. Again, I really
[09:20] don't think anything is that deep, like
[09:22] ever, including when you add your salt
[09:23] to your sourdough. Look how sticky this
[09:24] dough is. It will eat your glove.
[09:28] So, step three is complete. We've made
[09:30] our dough. Step four is wait 1 hour. I'm
[09:33] going to take a plastic shower cap.
[09:36] Okay, you could use a towel. I think
[09:38] shower caps work better because it keeps
[09:39] the moisture in. So, I'm going to wrap
[09:41] this shower cap around my bowl. Now, I'm
[09:43] going to put her back in her favorite
[09:44] place, which is under this light. And
[09:46] I'm going to wait 1 hour because she was
[09:48] just heavily massaged and she needs a
[09:49] break. Oh, you have all this extra
[09:51] starter. What are you supposed to do
[09:52] with it? Great question. Well, if you
[09:54] want to make sourdough, you need
[09:56] starter. So, we're going to have to keep
[09:57] this because if we just threw this away,
[09:58] then I would not have any sourdough
[10:00] starter and then basically that would be
[10:02] the last sourdough I ever made and that
[10:03] would be depressing. Putting it in a
[10:04] solo cup is easier because then just
[10:06] like this sticky glove, you can just
[10:08] throw it away because imagine washing
[10:10] your hands or washing your dishes when
[10:12] they're covered in sticky sourdough. Ew.
[10:13] >> I'm going to get my scale out again and
[10:15] I'm going to see how much starter I have
[10:16] left. I think a good rule of thumb is to
[10:18] just keep like 30 g of starter.
[10:22] Oh wow, that's 50. Okay, I'm going to
[10:24] take like half of that. So this is 30 g
[10:26] of starter. All this stuff that I'm
[10:28] going to throw away is called discard.
[10:29] You can search like discard recipes and
[10:32] stuff that you can use with all this
[10:34] extra sourdough. I've never done a
[10:36] discard recipe and we're not going to
[10:37] start today. Now, I'm going to add 30 g
[10:39] of water and 30 g of flour.
[10:44] And there is my fed starter. If you
[10:46] wanted to bake within the next few days,
[10:47] you could just leave it on the counter.
[10:48] Okay? Just put something on top of it so
[10:50] that it doesn't get dry and crusty and
[10:52] then you don't like have a gnat flying
[10:53] in there or something. I use the old lid
[10:55] of a candle. And then if you're going to
[10:56] leave it on the counter, you just have
[10:57] to feed it every like 24 hours. It's
[10:59] just a 1:1 ratio. If you don't want to
[11:01] bake again soon, you could just put this
[11:03] in the fridge. It's literally fine in
[11:04] the fridge for like probably upwards of
[11:06] like a year. Say, for example, you leave
[11:07] it in the fridge for a few months and
[11:09] then you pull it out and you're like, I
[11:10] want to make sourdough bread. And you
[11:11] look at it and you're like, oh my gosh,
[11:13] it's full of gray, gross, moldy looking
[11:15] water. That's called hooch. And that's
[11:18] totally normal. But the hooch means that
[11:19] your sourdough starter is hungry. So if
[11:21] you see hooch, I would take it out of
[11:23] the fridge, feed it, and then put it
[11:24] back in the fridge. I actually didn't
[11:26] need to keep this because I keep some
[11:28] extra sourdough in my fridge. Do you
[11:29] want to see? This is my emergency
[11:31] Debbie. The thing is though, you cannot
[11:33] just take this out of the fridge and
[11:35] cook with it. This hasn't been fed in
[11:37] probably like a month or so. You need to
[11:39] feed it at least once before you
[11:42] actually make your bread. That's your
[11:44] fun littleformational session.
[11:46] Congratulations everybody. Step number
[11:48] four is finally complete. This is what
[11:49] it looks like. It looks a little bit
[11:51] more wet. So, now we're going to enter
[11:52] into something called stretch and folds.
[11:54] Stretch and folds are exactly what they
[11:56] sound like. You just stretch it and fold
[11:57] it. So, you do four stretch and folds,
[12:00] wait 30 minutes, do it again, wait 30
[12:03] minutes, do it again, wait 30 minutes,
[12:05] do it again. You do the front, the back,
[12:07] the right, and the left. Grab it right
[12:08] here. And you stretch it. I kind of
[12:11] wiggle it and fold it over. Now, I'm
[12:12] going to grab it in the back, but I'm
[12:14] going to flip it around so it's easier
[12:15] to grab. Okay. So, just grab a huge
[12:18] handful, give it a little wiggle, and
[12:21] fold it over. Then, I'm going to do the
[12:22] right hand side.
[12:25] I'm going to grab it, wiggle it, fold it
[12:27] over. Now I'm going to do the left hand
[12:28] side. Grab it, wiggle it, fold it over.
[12:31] And that's it. That's your stretch and
[12:32] folds. In gym terms, four sets of four
[12:34] reps. So that was our four reps. Now we
[12:36] just have three more sets. But because
[12:37] I'm making a double batch, I'm just
[12:38] going to give it a few extra stretch and
[12:40] folds. I also think stretch and folds
[12:41] are just really fun. One thing you want
[12:42] to make sure when you're doing your
[12:43] stretch and folds is that the dough is
[12:45] not ripping. See, like if you were to
[12:46] just pull it up, see how it rips? You
[12:49] don't want it to rip. And that's kind of
[12:50] why I like to wiggle it and jiggle it.
[12:51] It's easier to get it to stretch without
[12:53] it ripping. There's also this other type
[12:54] of stretch and fold that I'll show you.
[12:55] You grab it on both sides.
[12:58] Try to lift it out of the bowl and then
[13:00] you rock it back and forth. Kind of like
[13:02] I don't know if you were to let a
[13:04] blanket fall over your hands or
[13:06] something. And then we're going to put
[13:07] our shower cap back on and let it sit
[13:09] for 30 minutes and then do it again.
[13:10] Back under my light bulb. My sweet baby
[13:12] goes. So, we're going to do our second
[13:15] set of stretch and vaults. And I also
[13:16] got my Door Dash order. Do you want to
[13:17] see what I got? Oh my gosh, I'm so
[13:18] excited. So, I get this chicken plate.
[13:20] It just has like this really juicy
[13:21] chicken. It's just like so flavorful.
[13:23] It's so good. These are the best fries
[13:24] I've ever had in my entire life. So, I'm
[13:26] going to do my second round of stretch
[13:27] and fold. We're just going to grab it
[13:28] and stretch and fold.
[13:32] Fold. And we'll do the sides. Stretch,
[13:35] fold. We'll do this side. Stretch and
[13:38] fold. And then I just kind of wiggle it.
[13:39] And you see how it stretches over my
[13:40] hand.
[13:42] So, I'm going to put the shower cap back
[13:43] on and let it sit for another 30 minutes
[13:45] while I eat my dinner and finish my
[13:47] housewives episode. I'm watching The
[13:48] Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. I also
[13:50] just finished The Real Housewives of
[13:51] Salt Lake. Oh my gosh, that's crazy. Do
[13:53] any of those women like each other? Cuz
[13:54] it seems like they all hate each other.
[13:55] The reunion was crazy. I'm going to stop
[13:57] yapping about housewives and go watch
[13:58] Housewives.
[14:00] I'll be right back. Plot twist.
[14:04] Okay, we did two stretch and folds. We
[14:06] have two more stretch and folds to go.
[14:07] However, I want to introduce you to the
[14:09] exciting world of inclusions. There's a
[14:11] gnat. Inclusions are just things that
[14:14] you add to your bread to make them more
[14:15] fun, like cheese or honestly anything,
[14:18] but cheese is my favorite. itself. You
[14:20] have two opportunities to add your
[14:21] inclusions. You can either do it during
[14:22] the stretch and fold phase or you can
[14:25] add it when you shape your loaves. If
[14:27] you want it to be really well mixed in,
[14:29] then you can do it during the stretch
[14:31] and fold so it gets all nice and evenly
[14:33] mixed up. If it's big and chunky, then
[14:36] you'll want to add it during the shaping
[14:37] cuz if it's big and chunky, it might not
[14:39] like mix in super well. Do you know what
[14:41] I'm saying? This is the dough for four
[14:43] loaves of bread, right? So, I am going
[14:46] to divide this up into four and continue
[14:48] the stretch and folds independently
[14:50] because some of these things I want to
[14:52] stretch and fold those inclusions into
[14:53] the bread. At this point in the process,
[14:55] it's going to be really sticky. So, I'm
[14:57] just going to I'm just going to give
[14:59] that a minute to maybe fall out of the
[15:00] bowl. This is something you don't need,
[15:02] but this has become one of my favorite
[15:05] kitchen appliances. This isn't an
[15:07] appliance, a kitchen accessory. This is
[15:09] called a bench scraper. I think I have
[15:11] this plastic one. And I think this is
[15:13] maybe a bench scraper cuz you use this
[15:14] plastic one with a rounded edge to like
[15:16] scoop out the dough from the bowl. I
[15:18] don't know if this is the same thing or
[15:20] what exactly this is. But you know
[15:21] what's really nice about this is because
[15:22] it's metal. This makes my life so much
[15:25] easier to clean things because I don't
[15:27] have to scrub. I love this passionately.
[15:30] Okay, so laying it upside down did
[15:32] nothing. So I'm going to take my plastic
[15:33] bench scraper and scrape this out of
[15:35] here. I should probably put a bunch of
[15:36] flour on the counter so it maybe it
[15:38] doesn't stick as bad. It's not going to
[15:39] be this sticky when it's done, but
[15:42] sweetie, it is hours and hours and hours
[15:46] away from being done. Just cut it in
[15:47] half and then half again. I'm not going
[15:49] to measure. I don't care that much. It
[15:50] really doesn't matter. It's not that
[15:51] deep.
[15:54] We have our halves and then in half
[15:57] again.
[15:59] One of these will go back in here. So,
[16:02] I'm going to take this one, put it in
[16:04] here. Cut this one in half. That in
[16:07] here. And this one. in here. See how
[16:10] there's stuff on the counter and oh my
[16:11] gosh, it's so messy.
[16:13] It's clean. And then I have my garbage
[16:15] can right here and I just scrape it off
[16:17] the counter straight into the garbage.
[16:19] So from here, we're going to complete
[16:20] the stretch and fold process. We still
[16:22] have two more rounds of stretch and
[16:23] folds. Let's start with my first loaf.
[16:25] And this one is going to be sprinkles.
[16:27] This is a really good time to explain
[16:29] the difference between adding during the
[16:30] stretch and folds and adding during
[16:31] shaping because I have a YouTube short
[16:33] where I made a sourdough loaf with
[16:35] sprinkles, but I forgot to add it during
[16:37] the stretch and folds and I added it
[16:38] during the shaping. And you can see that
[16:41] it's not really like spread out very
[16:43] well. It's kind of like chunky because
[16:45] when you shape the dough, you like fold
[16:47] it in thirds and then you roll it. So,
[16:49] you can see from the picture, you can
[16:51] kind of see like where the bread folded
[16:52] and where most of the sprinkles are. So,
[16:54] this is going to be a good comparison.
[16:56] And you can see how this time the
[16:57] sprinkles are really going to be
[16:58] incorporated. And you'll see how
[17:00] beautiful this one is when it's done.
[17:01] We're just going to add a bunch of
[17:02] sprinkles. I don't really know how many.
[17:04] Look how fun this looks. It literally
[17:07] just looks like a wet ball of sprinkles.
[17:09] Stretch and fold. Stretch and fold.
[17:12] Stretch
[17:14] and fold. Stretch and fold. You could
[17:17] also do chocolate chips, but frankly, I
[17:19] hate chocolate chips. I mean, I love
[17:21] chocolate chips in themselves and I love
[17:23] chocolate, but I hate chocolate chips in
[17:25] sourdough bread. I made it once and I
[17:26] thought it was going to be delicious.
[17:27] Best bread I've ever had. But it
[17:28] actually was the worst bread I've ever
[17:30] had. Give me sweet or give me savory or
[17:32] give me salty. I do not want any
[17:33] combination of the three of them
[17:34] together. I want them separate. Let's
[17:36] put this back on the stove to rest. The
[17:38] next I'm just going to do normal. So,
[17:40] let's just do quick stretch and folds.
[17:41] See how stretchy it is right now? And
[17:42] it's not even ripping cuz the gluten is
[17:44] getting stronger. A little scoop and
[17:47] shake. So, I'll put this over here. Our
[17:49] next loaf of bread is going to be a
[17:51] pizza loaf. So, we're going to be adding
[17:52] pepperoni and mozzarella cheese. If it's
[17:54] small, like the sprinkles or shredded
[17:56] cheese, I would add it during stretch
[17:57] and folds. If it's big and chunky, like
[17:59] pepperoni or these mozzarella pearls, I
[18:02] would add it later. So, I'm going to set
[18:03] the pepperoni and mozzarella balls
[18:05] aside, and I'm going to open up this
[18:06] shredded mozzarella and we'll add this
[18:07] now. I don't know, two handfuls. So,
[18:10] let's stretch this cheese in.
[18:15] It kind of looks like it has hair, but
[18:18] it's just cheese. Shower cap and set
[18:20] aside. Last, but not least, we have my
[18:22] personal favorite, which is aiago. The
[18:24] last time I used this, I accidentally
[18:25] shaved off a little bit of my knuckle
[18:26] when I was grading. That was Ow. That
[18:30] smells like feet. It's going to be so
[18:31] good, though. So, let's put in half of
[18:34] the oiago. Let's put in another big
[18:36] handful. We'll do our stretch and fold.
[18:39] And then we will put this shower cap on
[18:41] and put this on the stove. It's honestly
[18:43] probably time to start round four of
[18:45] stretch and folds on our first loaf. See
[18:47] how it got a lot more moist? I think
[18:49] that happens when you add in sugar. Oh
[18:51] my gosh, it's even starting to dye the
[18:53] color of the dough.
[18:56] Cool. This one was our plain one.
[19:00] Four and done. The mozzarella.
[19:06] So now we can give our sourdough a round
[19:07] of applause because we just finished
[19:09] step five, which was stretch, wait,
[19:11] stretch wait stretch wait stretch.
[19:13] Now that the stretch and folds are over,
[19:14] we can move on to step six, which is
[19:16] wait longer. Wait longer entails about 4
[19:19] hours, which really sucks for me because
[19:21] it's 7:30 p.m. I'm going to be shaving
[19:22] these at about 11:30 p.m. It's okay.
[19:25] Hello. Don't mind me. I took a shower
[19:27] and I selftanned and I put on my
[19:28] pajamas. I'm getting ready for bed. We
[19:31] just completed step six, which is wait 4
[19:33] hours and now we're going to move on to
[19:34] step seven, which is shaping. And I'm
[19:36] going to try to do this quickly because
[19:38] when I'm done with this, I can go to
[19:40] bed. Yay,
[19:42] bed. Let's start simple with our plain
[19:45] loaf. I'm going to flour the counter a
[19:47] little bit. See how this just pulls
[19:49] right off the bowl? It's kind of
[19:51] satisfying.
[19:53] And the bowl's like basically clean.
[19:55] This is going to be called laminating.
[19:57] So, you take it and you just stretch it
[19:59] out
[20:01] like this, like a big piece of paper.
[20:03] It's very sticky, so I'm just going to
[20:05] add like a little splash of flour. And
[20:07] then what you're going to do is you're
[20:08] going to fold it in thirds and then roll
[20:10] it up into a ball the other way. Grab
[20:11] this and fold it over. Grab this third
[20:13] and fold it over. You're going to just
[20:15] roll it this way,
[20:18] the hot dog way. So, I'm going to put
[20:20] way more flour on the counter. And then
[20:22] also some flour on here because this is
[20:24] really sticky. So, that was the
[20:25] laminating part. And now we're going to
[20:26] do the push and pull part. Put your
[20:28] hands like this like a butterfly kind
[20:30] of. And then you just push it. And then
[20:32] you turn it 25°. And then you pull it.
[20:36] And you kind of let your fingers slip
[20:38] underneath there. Oh, see? And there's
[20:40] this big bubble. And you're going to get
[20:41] all these fun bubbles. And that's great.
[20:42] Turn it 25°. You're going to butterfly
[20:44] your hands. You're going to push it.
[20:46] Then you're going to turn it 25° and
[20:48] you're going to pull it towards you back
[20:50] here. And what you're doing is you're
[20:52] creating tension on the top of the loaf
[20:55] so that instead of being really sloppy,
[20:58] floppy, doughy, it's going to have like
[21:00] more structure and stuff and it'll just
[21:02] look nicer and it'll look more tight.
[21:04] There's not like a set number of times
[21:05] that you do this just until you feel
[21:07] like it looks nice and pretty and firm.
[21:10] See how that looks way better than the
[21:11] blob we had before because we created
[21:13] surface tension by doing those push and
[21:15] pulls. So I'm just going to put a little
[21:16] more flour on top. Give it a nice little
[21:18] rub. And now I want to show you
[21:20] something unnecessary called a baneton.
[21:22] I have two bananatons. How many
[21:24] bananatons do you need? Zero. But
[21:25] they're nice to have. You know what you
[21:27] could do if you don't have a baneton is
[21:28] just use a normal bowl. So I have my
[21:30] cute little liner and my cute little
[21:31] bananaton just like this. And I'm going
[21:33] to take my sourdough loaf and I'm going
[21:35] to put it smooth side down in here. You
[21:38] can kind of see how it's still kind of
[21:39] sticky and stuff on the bottom. So, what
[21:41] I like to do is just pinch it closed
[21:43] because we made all that tension and I
[21:45] want to try to keep that tension. That's
[21:46] super sticky. So, I'm just going to put
[21:48] more flour on it.
[21:52] Shower cap. And we're going to put this
[21:53] in the fridge overnight. And
[21:55] congratulations. That's our first loaf.
[21:57] Yay. Woo. Let's do our second. Going to
[22:01] spread this out like a big piece of
[22:02] paper. Fold it in thirds. Thirds. And
[22:06] roll it. You can kind of pull it a
[22:08] little bit while you're rolling it. Just
[22:09] a teeny bit though. You see how it's
[22:11] like super open on the sides like that?
[22:13] You kind of want to close those. So,
[22:15] let's try to kind of tuck that. Tuck
[22:18] that in. Push. Pull. And again, I'm just
[22:22] doing this until I feel like the top is
[22:24] nice and tight. Kind of like if it was
[22:26] to have a faceelift and it was going to
[22:27] be really, you know what I mean? That's
[22:29] kind of what you want your bread to look
[22:30] like. And we'll put it in the baneton. I
[22:32] do not have one of those fancy little
[22:34] liners for this bowl. So, I'm just going
[22:35] to use a towel. You just want to make
[22:36] sure that they're not super fluffy cuz
[22:38] if you use a really fluffy towel, then
[22:39] you're going to have some fuzzy stuff in
[22:41] your bread and you don't want that. Add
[22:43] some flour.
[22:46] Cover it. Now we have my favorite aiago
[22:49] loaf. Same thing. I just love this
[22:52] sound. And it's soft like a pillow. Fold
[22:56] this in thirds.
[22:58] Roll it up. Push. Turn. Pull. I'm out of
[23:04] cute bananatons, so I'm just going to
[23:06] use this dirty bowl from before. Roll
[23:07] this upside down, smooth side down into
[23:09] my bowl. Flour. Fold the corners in.
[23:12] Shower cap. Done. One more. And this is
[23:15] where we're going to add some more
[23:16] inclusions.
[23:17] We're just going to put them everywhere.
[23:19] Instead of getting out a cutting board
[23:20] and a knife, I'm just going to cut these
[23:22] with my sewing scissors into quarters.
[23:24] So, I'm going to sprinkle this
[23:26] pepperoni. Oh, it looks like a little
[23:28] pizza. And now I'm going to do the same
[23:30] thing. I'm going to fold it in thirds.
[23:31] Before I fold again though, more cheese
[23:34] and pepperoni. We'll fold this one over.
[23:37] Put the rest of our cheese and
[23:39] pepperoni. So, we'll be extra careful on
[23:42] the push and pulls to try to keep them
[23:45] all inside. Sometimes the one with the
[23:46] inclusions look a little weird and
[23:48] lumpy, but it's okay because it's full
[23:51] of things that make it lumpy.
[23:54] See how that just has so much more
[23:55] tension than before? You can see that
[23:57] the pepperoni is starting to poke
[23:58] through. So, I'm going to try to pinch
[24:00] that closed as well. If you're doing one
[24:03] with inclusions and everything's kind of
[24:04] falling over everywhere, just do your
[24:06] best. It really doesn't matter that
[24:07] much. That is the completion of step
[24:09] seven, which is shape the loaves and the
[24:11] beginning of step eight, where they
[24:12] spend all night long in the fridge. So,
[24:14] I would recommend having it in there for
[24:16] about 12 hours or overnight cuz it's
[24:17] 11:00 p.m. and I'll probably cook it
[24:19] tomorrow morning whenever it's
[24:21] convenient for me. So, maybe like 8 to
[24:23] 12 hours. Step nine is go to bed. So,
[24:25] I'll see you tomorrow for the last step.
[24:28] Good morning. Who's ready to make some
[24:29] bread? It's actually not morning. It's
[24:31] 5:30 p.m. because when I woke up this
[24:32] morning, I forgot that I was actually
[24:34] supposed to go to a woodworking class
[24:35] with my friend. So, I spent all day
[24:36] making a cabinet with her. So, that was
[24:39] really fun. But now, it's time to make
[24:40] my bread. All you need to do is preheat
[24:41] the oven to 450°. You remember how I
[24:44] told you that a lot of sourdough things
[24:45] you don't need? What you do need is a
[24:47] Dutch oven. Oh, also, I painted my
[24:49] pantry rainbow. Isn't that fun? But
[24:52] yeah, you can see my Dutch oven here.
[24:53] They're pretty cheap. You can get one on
[24:54] Amazon for like $30 or $40. I'll link a
[24:56] few cute options. We preheated the oven
[24:58] to 450°. What's very important is that
[25:01] you have to preheat the Dutch oven. So,
[25:03] put the Dutch oven in your oven and then
[25:06] start preheating so that the Dutch oven
[25:08] is just as hot as your real oven. Which
[25:09] one should we do first? Maybe oiago. So,
[25:12] we can eat it first. Except I don't
[25:13] remember which one of THESE WAS AIAGO.
[25:15] WO! LOOK HOW BIG that got. Do you
[25:17] remember how tiny that was before? Is
[25:19] this my oiago?
[25:21] Yeah, that smells really stinky. So, I
[25:23] think that's Oiago. They have fancy
[25:25] silicone bread thingies that you can put
[25:27] your bread on and then you put the
[25:28] silicone thing into your pot. I don't
[25:30] have that. I just have parchment paper.
[25:37] I barely have parchment paper. No, I was
[25:40] just about to make four loaves of bread.
[25:42] Okay, maybe I have some in my rainbow
[25:43] pantry. Why is this parchment paper
[25:45] white and this one brown? Does the color
[25:46] matter? Are all parchment papers made
[25:48] the same? It says oven safe. We'll just
[25:50] put this in the oven and if I smell
[25:51] burning, then we'll stop. We're going to
[25:54] sacrifice the sprinkle loaf to test out
[25:56] my parchment paper. Maybe you do want
[25:58] the fancy silicone thing cuz then you
[25:59] won't run into a problem where you run
[26:01] out of parchment paper when you're
[26:02] trying to make bread. So, we're just
[26:03] going to lay out a piece of parchment
[26:04] paper and I'm going to take my loaf.
[26:05] Remember how we put the smooth side on
[26:07] the bottom? We want the smooth side on
[26:08] the top again. So, we're going to flip
[26:10] this upside down. Oh, look at how
[26:13] beautiful and round that is. Are you
[26:15] kidding? It's like burping a baby. This
[26:18] is another piece of sourdough equipment
[26:20] that you don't need, but you could buy
[26:22] if you wanted to. It's basically like a
[26:24] razor blade on a fancy stick. And all
[26:26] you do is cut a big line down the middle
[26:30] of your loaf. A lot of people get really
[26:31] fancy and they make really cute designs.
[26:33] I could not care less. So, I just make
[26:36] one big cut right down the middle and it
[26:38] works fine for me. That's called scoring
[26:39] your loaf. You know what I did here once
[26:41] actually is that scoring your loaf
[26:43] actually doesn't really do anything to
[26:44] the bread. But back in the olden days
[26:46] when they used communal ovens and
[26:48] everyone was baking bread together, they
[26:49] would score their loaf so they would be
[26:51] able to tell whose loaf belongs to who.
[26:53] I don't know if that's true or not.
[26:54] That's what I heard on the internet. So
[26:55] obviously it's true. So now I'm going to
[26:57] put my loaf in here.
[26:59] And back in the oven it goes.
[27:02] Okay. And then we're going to set a
[27:04] timer for 35 minutes. Three things to
[27:07] note. Number one, you don't need this.
[27:09] You could use a knife. It would be
[27:10] totally fine. Number two, if you watch a
[27:12] lot of videos about people making
[27:13] sourdough, you might see them throw ice
[27:15] cubes in the side or sometimes they put
[27:17] little grains of rice at the bottom. I
[27:19] don't do that. I'm pretty sure if you've
[27:21] been baking and your bread is like
[27:22] really dry, you can put an ice cube in
[27:24] there to help make more steam and keep
[27:26] it moist. I've never had that problem.
[27:29] My bread tastes fine, so I don't add
[27:31] ice. Reversely, if your bread seems too
[27:34] moist, you can add some little grains of
[27:37] dried, uncooked rice to the bottom of
[27:39] the pan and then you put the parchment
[27:41] paper on top of it and then the rice in
[27:43] there will help absorb some of the extra
[27:45] moisture. Again, I feel like my bread
[27:46] tastes fine. So, I don't do that either.
[27:48] One thing I did learn though is the
[27:50] first few times I made sourdough, the
[27:51] bottom would get completely black and
[27:53] burnt, even though the rest of it was
[27:55] perfectly fine. And so, what I figured
[27:56] out, if you put a baking sheet
[27:58] underneath the Dutch oven, it won't burn
[28:00] anymore. Okay, we have 20 seconds left
[28:02] on the timer. That white paper is just a
[28:04] little bit burnt. It's okay. 5 5 4 3 2 1
[28:13] I feel like it's like Now, what we're
[28:16] going to do is take the lid off and let
[28:18] it brown for five more minutes. Maybe
[28:20] three depending on how it's looking.
[28:21] Yeah, it's kind of burnt a little bit.
[28:23] So, I don't actually I'm not even going
[28:25] to brown it. If I let that brown
[28:26] anymore, it's going to not be brown
[28:27] anymore. It's going to be black. Why is
[28:28] that so burnt? My guess is going to be
[28:30] because of all the sugar. I think sugar
[28:32] cooks differently maybe. I don't know.
[28:34] It's going to be really pretty on the
[28:35] inside though. You could use a cooling
[28:37] rack if you want to. I like to just put
[28:38] it on the stove. So, I'm just going to
[28:40] put this over here. Now, let's cook my
[28:42] aiago.
[28:43] I'm going to show you how to cut this
[28:44] with a knife in case you don't have one
[28:46] of these fancy little bread razors. You
[28:49] just
[28:51] cut it. This one also looks a little bit
[28:53] more flat than the other one. Again,
[28:55] science. I don't really know. But here's
[28:56] the thing. I usually mess up something
[28:58] here or there. Like this time I
[28:59] accidentally let this ferment for like
[29:01] 18 hours in the fridge when I was going
[29:03] to do maybe 10. But it's fine cuz you
[29:05] just cook it the same way and I feel
[29:06] like it always turns out amazing. I kind
[29:07] of have this theory that sourdough bread
[29:08] is foolproof because I'm a fool and I
[29:10] make great bread. And I'm going to do 35
[29:13] minutes again cuz that's what I always
[29:15] do. You do need to let the bread cool
[29:16] for 1 hour before you cut it open. So
[29:18] let's cook a few more loaves and then
[29:20] we'll cut that sourdough open. I can't
[29:22] wait. I hear the oven. Let's take the
[29:24] lid off and hope that it's not burnt
[29:25] like the last one. Yes. See how it still
[29:28] looks like not burnt like the other one.
[29:31] We're going to put this back in the oven
[29:32] for five minutes to brown the top.
[29:37] I also am going to put the lid back in
[29:38] the oven so that the lid stays hot so
[29:40] that when we move on to our next loaf,
[29:42] it's all hot and ready to go. Let's do 3
[29:44] minutes. My beautiful loaf is ready. I
[29:46] love the smell of cheese. Ow. I need my
[29:49] nails to be a little bit longer. This
[29:52] loaf looks a little bit ugly, but it
[29:53] will taste the best, I think. You know
[29:56] what we could try to do on this one is
[29:57] make a fun design. I've never ever ever
[29:58] tried to do a fun design. Wow, that one
[30:00] is juicy and plump. What I see a lot of
[30:03] people do when they make really pretty
[30:05] loaves is they dust the top of it in
[30:07] flour and then as it grows open, only
[30:10] the top part has flour and it helps to
[30:12] make a really pretty design. And I'm
[30:14] going to dust the top of this in flour.
[30:16] Why do I not do this on any of my other
[30:18] loaves? Well, because it doesn't affect
[30:20] the taste and I really don't care, so I
[30:22] don't. So when you score it, scoring is
[30:24] like cutting it. But then when you bake
[30:26] it and that score mark comes up and is
[30:29] like all pretty and stuff. That's called
[30:31] an ear cuz it sticks up like a little
[30:32] ear. I don't really have an ear here.
[30:34] Maybe I'm doing something wrong. I don't
[30:36] know. You can let me know in the
[30:37] comments if I'm doing something wrong.
[30:38] I'm not saying that this is the perfect
[30:40] sourdough recipe ever. I'm just saying
[30:41] that this is how I make my sourdough.
[30:43] And I think my bread is amazing. I think
[30:45] I'm going to do a big score
[30:47] on the side here. See how this one's
[30:50] really deep? So that's your quote
[30:52] expansion score cuz that's where it's
[30:53] going to expand. And then you make just
[30:55] a baby cut. So these are wheat stalks. I
[30:58] think everyone say a prayer that this
[30:59] looks nice and cute and yummy when it
[31:00] comes out. So we're going to put this
[31:02] back in here. Put this lid on. 35
[31:05] minutes. I think I'm going to do the
[31:07] laundry.
[31:09] The best sound ever. Oh my gosh, that
[31:12] looks so cute. Okay, let's give it five
[31:15] more minutes. Why don't I have a pretty
[31:17] ear on my loaf?
[31:20] of sour dough. Scoring angle matters
[31:23] more than depth. Oh. Oh, you're supposed
[31:26] to score at a 30 to 45° angle, not
[31:29] straight down. Oh,
[31:32] I didn't know that. Let's try that with
[31:34] this one that I'm about to make in a
[31:36] second, and we'll see. Oh, that's just
[31:38] beautiful. The wheat stocks look a
[31:40] little bit more like bugs, but that's
[31:41] okay. You can eat bugs. Look at how
[31:44] plump that is. You can see where I cut
[31:46] it, but this line is flat. Whereas this
[31:49] seam is kind of popping open like this.
[31:52] That is the ear. This
[31:55] is technically an ear, but it didn't
[31:56] ear. You know, the ear is not earring.
[31:58] This ear is baby earring. That's a good
[32:01] loaf of bread right there.
[32:04] And let's do our last loaf of the
[32:06] evening. Let's try a 45° angle. If this
[32:10] works, I'm going to be shocked.
[32:12] Oh jeez. It's already 8:00 p.m. 35
[32:15] minutes. That's what I'm saying.
[32:17] Sourdough is easy, but it takes forever.
[32:18] So, if someone gives you a homemade loaf
[32:20] of sourdough bread, they probably really
[32:22] like you. That's a very thoughtful
[32:23] present. I'll be back in 30. It's done.
[32:27] Did it leaf?
[32:29] Ah, no. Well, a little bit. It leafed
[32:31] more than the other ones. That looks so
[32:34] good. There is cheese everywhere. Let's
[32:37] timer 5 minutes. When we eat that one,
[32:39] we should dip it in marinara. It's
[32:42] ready. It's ready. It's ready. It's
[32:43] ready. This might be the most beautiful
[32:44] one yet. Look at my magician's trick.
[32:47] Oh, that didn't work. It's like snow.
[32:51] It's not funny cuz I'm the one that has
[32:52] to clean that up.
[32:55] That scared my dog. He's okay. So, it
[32:58] did ear a little bit more. It's hard to
[33:01] tell though because there's like pockets
[33:02] of pepperoni and cheese just coming out
[33:05] literally everywhere. Just so much
[33:07] cheese. They all look so different even
[33:09] though they're all from the same batch.
[33:11] So, here's my plain loaf. It eared.
[33:13] Okay. So pretty. And then these are the
[33:15] little wheat stocks that we made that
[33:17] kind of look like bugs to me. My
[33:19] favorite part of a sourdough loaf is
[33:21] something called the blisters. Can you
[33:23] see all those little bubbles? And then
[33:25] we have the oiago loaf, which is a lot
[33:27] more dense and flat, but I think it's
[33:28] just going to be equally as delicious.
[33:30] And you can see that this one doesn't
[33:31] have as many blisters, but instead of
[33:33] blisters, there's just like cheese
[33:36] pieces everywhere. This is my sprinkle
[33:38] loaf. There's no question that this one
[33:39] was cooked. It's a little burnt on the
[33:41] top and the bottom, but the sides look
[33:43] really fun and colorful. I bet the
[33:44] inside is going to be stunning. This one
[33:46] just absolutely looks stunning because
[33:48] the cheese is just squeezing out
[33:50] everywhere and that just looks insane.
[33:51] We can start cutting into some of these.
[33:53] You want to? I bet it's going to be
[33:54] absolutely amazing. Stunning.
[33:58] How does it look?
[34:00] That's so pretty. That is so fun. I'm
[34:04] interested to try this because I usually
[34:06] don't like sweet and tangy mixed
[34:07] together like I was telling you with the
[34:09] chocolate chips, but we'll see.
[34:13] I'm going to hold to my opinion that I
[34:15] don't like sweet things mixed in with
[34:16] sourdough. It's not bad, but it's not my
[34:19] favorite. I bought paper bread bags on
[34:20] Amazon because I kept putting this in
[34:22] plastic bags and then it just was
[34:24] getting really steamy and then the bread
[34:25] was getting soggy, so I bought paper
[34:27] ones. My friends won't mind that I give
[34:29] them a loaf of bread with a piece cut
[34:31] out of it. Next, let's do aiago. my
[34:34] favorite. You can't even really see the
[34:35] cheese, but you know it's in there. See,
[34:37] you just squish it and it comes right
[34:38] back up. I don't really know what that
[34:40] means, but I think it's a good sign. Oh,
[34:42] that's delicious. Now, let's cut open
[34:44] the normal one. This might be the most
[34:46] beautiful loaf of bread I've ever made.
[34:47] You want to see? That's just so pretty.
[34:50] Fantastic. Give me 14 of them right now.
[34:52] Listen to this.
[34:55] I literally cannot stand it anymore. I
[34:58] have to eat this loaf of bread. Okay,
[34:59] you can look first.
[35:02] Oh, it's still steaming. I can see the
[35:03] steam from the back. I know I just cut
[35:05] it in the middle, but I am dying to eat
[35:07] this piece right here on the side cuz it
[35:09] just looks like cheese
[35:11] everywhere. Oh my goodness,
[35:16] that is very good. I don't even like
[35:18] pepperoni that much, honestly.
[35:22] Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Well,
[35:24] thank you so much for watching my boring
[35:25] tutorial. I hope it wasn't too boring,
[35:26] and I hope it was mildly helpful. I am
[35:28] no bread wizard, so I am open to any
[35:30] tips anyone has or if you have any
[35:32] questions, please leave them in the
[35:34] comments and I'd be happy to try to
[35:36] help. But I'm also just learning. I've
[35:39] only been making sourdough for maybe
[35:40] like 6 months, just ever since this baby
[35:43] was born. I'm just kidding. He's like 7
[35:46] years old. Thanks for watching. Bye.
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