I have been making sourdough bread for a few years, mostly with great results but these were inconsistent. Whenever the bread was good I could attribute it to sheer luck and lots of sweat. I had tried all manners of recipes including the no-knead one but I still wasn't quite happy with the resulting bread.

A few months ago I decided I had had it. I had had it with not knowing how my bread would turn out after toiling away for hours, or sometimes for days, kneading bread and nurturing the cultu...

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