What and how much effort does it take to manage sourdough starter? What is needed to have greater guarantees of success? Is it important to use technical flour or specific equipment? What is useful to know before starting to start a sourdough starter, or when you… …
sourdough starter
-
- Sourdough starterLiquid sourdough starter
Sensory analysis of liquid sourdough, how to understand licoli (2/2)
di Alice BudaSensory analysis of liquid sourdough: the view Continued from… Sensory analysis of liquid sourdough, how to understand licoli (1/2) The color The liquid sourdough observed immediately after refreshment is usually the same color as the flour used,… …
- Sourdough starterLiquid sourdough starter
Sensory analysis of liquid sourdough, how to understand licoli (1/2)
di Alice BudaLiquid sourdough is a less technical and less delicate sourdough than solid sourdough. Or as I like to say, it's a less touchy sourdough starter. This means that it is less easily unbalanced in acidity, has… …
-
Refreshing solid sourdough is often seen as something challenging and time-consuming. Especially from those approaching it for the first time. Unlike liquid sourdough, in fact, it is necessary to get dirty… …
- Sourdough starterLiquid sourdough starterPasta madre
Introduction to the sensory analysis of sourdough starter (solid and liquid)
di Alice BudaThe importance of sensorial analysis of sourdough I will never tire of repeating it: sensory analysis is the most powerful and reliable tool we have to understand how our sourdough is doing and therefore take care of it in the correct way. Without the ability… …
- Baking tools and equipmentResources
Sourdough pH meter, care, shelf life and signs of wear
di Alice BudaPopularity of the pH meter for sourdough More and more people are deciding to purchase a pH meter for sourdough and dough. Accomplice to this is the advertising that users themselves do on social channels, but also the always… …
-
Disambiguate In the baking sector, the technical terminology is vast and very varied. We often refer to the same object, process, method, phenomenon using different words, depending on one's place of origin or training (as when for example... ...
-
Flour, a complex and sensitive ingredient It's easy to say flour. Yet, contrary to popular belief, it is an extremely complex ingredient, the result of which is given by the selection of the grains and the entire manufacturing process, including… …
- Sourdough starterPasta madre
The volume of the pasta madre: does not grow enough. Causes and solutions (1/2)
di Alice BudaOne of the most frequent problems, the easiest to notice, is the volume of the pasta madre. How much does it grow? How far should it go? To date I believe (based on the experience gained so far and my studies) that one pasta madre in… …
- Pasta madreSourdough starter
Pasta madre to flower, how to make the sourdough starter bloom (2/2)
di Alice BudaRefreshment sample for to get a pasta madre a fiore It is difficult, and perhaps wrong, to give a practical indication on how to refresh the sourdough starter, without taking into account what the sourdough starter on which you want to intervene is like, in which… …
