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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Baking Sourdough 101

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Mike Vaona demystifies sourdough for us. Sourdough making can be intimidating but as long as you are committed to failing at first and learning from your mistakes.   Comment your favorite part of this week's episodes on @rosehillsourdough’s instagram post about being on this podcast for a chance to win a Rosehill Sourdough BreadMat, an rhsd wood pulp proofing basket AND a number 10 Dutch oven! Entries valid from Monday, June 26,2023 - Monday, July 3, 2023. Winner will be announced on @rosehillsourdough Instagram!  Connect With Mike Vaona: Rosehill Sourdough started as a way to document my sourdough process for my own benefit. It quickly turned into an opportunity to share my knowledge with the world. Baking with Rosehill Sourdough has sold thousands of copies and I am excited to provide the baking community with the best tools, tips, and techniques so they can feed themselves, their families, and their communities. Website Instagram YouTube Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

If you have struggled growing sourdough like myself, then today's episode will set you

0:17.0

on the right path.

0:18.4

We have Mike Vanna from Roso, sourdough on.

0:21.5

I think you've actually been quite privy to my journey, Mike, because I DM you and share

0:25.8

all my fails.

0:27.6

So you know what's going on, but for those who don't, I've had problems with what I call

0:31.4

the horseshoe crab, where I baked this almost like a manhole cover level white loaf.

0:37.9

You know, then I've done ones that have like tunnels in them and you know, hard loves all

0:43.8

sorts of different problems.

0:44.8

And so can we level set and just say like, here's how to bake sourdough at a high level?

0:50.2

Absolutely.

0:51.2

I think it's, it's one of those things where you, you kind of have to know everything before

0:57.2

you can know anything.

0:58.4

Like you have to kind of get all of these pieces to fit together.

1:01.9

And I think the thing that frustrates New Baker specifically is they are all cumulative

1:07.7

skills.

1:08.7

So like you learn one thing and then you feel like you're about to have this awesome loaf

1:12.6

and you score it wrong or you have this awesome loaf and you're shaping fails or you

1:17.8

get to the final, your last coil fold and you put too much water on your hands and the

1:21.3

dough doesn't stick together and you're like, dang it, but it's all these little cumulative

1:25.5

goals that you have to hit, all these skills.

1:27.9

And I think that's really the crux of it is getting your hands in dough and knowing your

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