Good morning, bakers. Today's the day. Two tracks, same destination: Yeasted with Poolish — if you started your poolish last night, you're on the dinner-ready timeline. Sourdough — longer build, deeper flavor. Worth the wait. Both recipes finish with the alkaline bath, that mahogany crust, and the snap that makes a pretzel loaf a pretzel loaf. Drop in the thread: - Where you are in the process - Photos as you go (poolish, dough, shaped, boiled, baked, sliced) - Questions, anytime. No question is too small. - Wins. Fails. Everything in between. Quick reminders: - Bread sling or parchment makes the boil-to-oven transfer way easier - Everything topping goes on right after the boil while the surface is wet, not after the bake - 4.7L water, 120g baking soda, rolling boil before you dunk - Watch the crust color, you want deep mahogany, not just brown Adjust to fit your kitchen: If the alkaline bath feels like a lot, or your pot's not big enough, or you're juggling one Dutch oven and trying to make it all work, split the dough into two smaller loaves. Smaller loaves are easier to handle in the bath, easier to bake, and just as tasty. Bake time will come down a bit, so watch the color and the internal temp. Adjust to the situation you're in. The recipe works for you, not the other way around. Both recipes are in the Recipe Pantry. Full video walk-through is on YouTube if you need a refresher. Let's bake. Perfection is not required. Progress is. ~ Henry ⭐🔥

If you're building a starter right now, or you've been thinking about starting one, this is for you. I just dropped a new resource inside the Classroom that's going to save you from the most common quitting points in sourdough. 🥣 The Sourdough Starter 7-Day Expectation Sheet This walks you through exactly what to expect every single day of the build. ✅ What you'll see in the jar ✅ What you'll smell ✅ What to do that day ✅ And the reality check that keeps you from giving up when the jar lies to you Because here's the truth... Almost every starter that fails in our community fails for the same reason. Not bad flour. Not bad water. Not bad luck. People quit between Day 3 and Day 5. 📈 Day 3 lies to you with a false rise from bacteria, not yeast. 📉 Day 4 scares you when it crashes and goes flat. 🤔 Day 5 keeps you guessing. 🔥 Day 6 is when it starts coming together. This expectation sheet was built so you know what's coming before it happens. No panic. No guessing. Just clear coaching from Day 1 through Day 7. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📦 The resource comes in two formats: 🖼️ A full-color infographic you can save to your phone and reference anywhere 📄 A printable PDF you can tape to the fridge next to your jar ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎓 Both are inside the Classroom module here: 👉 https://www.skool.com/crust-crumb-academy-7621/classroom/5e132945?md=a2643bf5f74941b38c7790d83ec6dec6 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🥖 It also pairs with the full Sourdough Starter From Scratch recipe in the Pantry, which includes: ✔️ The complete day-by-day process ✔️ FAQs ✔️ Feeding schedule ✔️ Storage instructions ✔️ Troubleshooting help ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📸 If you're starting a new starter this week, drop a photo of your Day 1 jar in the comments. We'll walk through the week together. And if you're stuck on Day 4 right now... Recipe Pantry Recipe: https://pantry.bakinggreatbread.com/recipes/sourdough-starter-from-scratch?utm_source=skool&utm_medium=community&utm_campaign=recipe-share