
Create your own sourdough starter from scratch in seven days, guided by essential day-by-day tips, flour and water, and a faster, easier approach to artisan bread baking.
Identify the key tools and ingredients for your sourdough starter and plan ahead with time and dedication. Understand why flour types matter for kick-starting your seven-day starter.
Discover sourdough starter essentials, a natural wild yeast culture that leavens bread with flour, water, time, and dedication, rooted in an ancient bread history.
Identify essential ingredients and tools to prepare a sourdough starter, including flour, water, a digital kitchen scale, and a digital thermometer, plus jars and bowls with practical tips.
Mix rye, unbleached white, and whole wheat flour to boost starter activity and sourdough flavor, using a rye-50%, unbleached white-25%, whole wheat-25% composition for best results in seven days.
Create a precise flour mix for your sourdough starter by weighing rye flour, white bread flour, and whole wheat flour on a tared scale, enabling weekly baking.
Start your sourdough starter by mixing flour and water and following day-by-day steps from day one through day four. Observe live yeast culture development and apply practical tips.
Day one covers stocking and feeding your sourdough starter at the same time daily, using 10 g flour and 10 g water, glass bowls, and a lid, not airtight.
Start and sustain a 100 percent hydration sourdough starter with a 1-1-1 feeding ratio of 20 g each, and observe texture, smell, and activity as you discard excess.
Continue the 1-1-1 feeding (20 g starter, water, flour) as you observe day four: foamy texture, increased size, sweet yeast aroma, and rising activity in a clear bottle.
Master the 1-1-1 feeding routine for a sourdough starter, using a wide-mouth jar and precise measurements to achieve consistent doubling and dome-shaped rises over day five and six.
Learn how to transition your sourdough starter from day seven into future bakes and bread baking, with prep steps for ongoing use.
Move on day seven from a 24-hour to a 12-hour feeding schedule with a 1-1-1 ratio (20 g flour, 20 g water, 20 g starter) to strengthen the sourdough starter.
On day seven, continue a 1-1-1 feeding schedule with 30 grams starter, flour, and water to strengthen the bubbly sourdough before day eight bread making.
Prepare for that beautiful loaf by learning to create two starters—one for future bakes and one for a single bread baking. Joy is guaranteed on this journey.
Celebrate seven-day milestone with a bubbly, strong sourdough starter that doubles every 24 hours and thrives on a 12-hour feeding cycle. Trust your process, keep feeding, and enjoy bread-making day.
Divide the starter into levain for bread today and a main starter for future bakes, using a 1-1-1 feeding ratio (70/70/70) across two jars.
Celebrate your seven-day journey by nurturing your own sourdough starter, keep it for years with a maintenance routine, and start baking more as you become a skilled baker.
If you knew that you can create your own sourdough starter and bake a delicious artisan loaf, how would you feel?
Here is the course to start your magical journey. Just imagine the delicious smell of the sourdough loaf coming out of your oven.
An all-natural, healthy and strong starter is key to achieve a delicious loaf. It is a common belief that it takes months to get a strong sourdough starter. I have learned through experimentation and continuous learning that a strong sourdough starter can be created in just 7 days.
Your instructor - My name is Gülcan
I am a home baker; I have discovered the joy and comfort of bread baking as well as the joy of sharing my sourdough starter and baking knowledge with family and friends. Sourdough bread making became one of my favorite things to do; it is now a mediative experience; and sharing the skills and knowledge with family and friends provides such a sense of fulfillment. With this course, I expand this joy.
I am a continuous improvement executive; teaching and coaching improvement methodologies (including Lean Six Sigma) for managers, senior leaders, clinicians, and team leaders. The improvement science works hand-in-hand with sourdough bread baking process.
I learned so much through baking and experimenting, exploring how to make the baking process clearer, more practical, and joyful. I am excited to share all my learning, success factors, key resources, and practical tips. This course removes baking world complications.
More baking and more happiness.
Why This Course?
Sourdough bread baking is a slow process, but I learned that creating a sourdough starter does not need to be. Once we have a strong sourdough starter, all the time and effort can then be channeled into making your baking skills better rather than waiting for the starter to be stronger.
This course offers everything you need to know to create that dependable sourdough starter. It also offers all the learning from all my practice and sharing what worked. This is a tried and tested knowledge from a home-baker, clarifying a very complex process. This course includes:
How to plan and prepare
Key ingredients and tools
What to do each day - I demonstrate the full process each day
Practical tips
Common challenges and how to address them
Success variables to create the ideal conditions
How to manage all the key factors to work as a system
Is the How to Make Your Sourdough Starter in Just 7 Days course for you?
Have you always want to bake your own artisan sourdough loaf?
Do you wish to experience creating your own sourdough starter from just flour and water?
Does creating your own sourdough starter in just 7 days and baking a delicious loaf next week sound like something you'd like to do?
Do you wish to bake delicious sourdough breads for your friends and family?
Do you want to create your own bread with specific flavors?
Do you want to create artisan home-made bread using natural ingredients for your family?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, I would love to welcome you to take this course.
Frequently Asked Questions:
1- Why do I need sourdough starter?
It is the dynamic-force of our sourdough bread. A strong starter is essential to bake a delicious sourdough bread.
2- Who is this course for?
Anyone with a passion to bake. Anyone who wants to create their own sourdough starter. If you wanted to bake, but did not know where to get your sourdough starter, or did not succeed to create your own starter in the past - this course is designed for you.
3- Why should I enroll?
This course has everything that you need to start including key success factors to achieve your healthy, happy, bubbly sourdough starter in 7 days.
4- What baking knowledge and experience do I need?
Just bring your sourdough love and dedication. No experience is needed; basic baking knowledge would be useful but not required.
5- I have some experience, is it for me?
Absolutely, the learning never ends.