How to score bread before baking

Artisan bread is a feast for the senses. If you’ve ever encountered a baker selling bread at the farmers market, or walked into a small artisan bakery, you know what I mean. I’ve been buying fresh sourdough (a type of artisan bread) from small bakeries for a couple years now and would never go back to regular bread. Today I want to explain the differences between artisan bread versus sourdough bread and regular grocery store bread. Plus, why you might want to choose one over the other.

Scoring your sourdough bread with a bread lame can be a work of art, but it's also essential to the baking process! Slashing the dough with a sharp razor after the final proof allows the dough to expand in the oven, and let the gasses release. This post shares my top 7 tips for scoring bread with ease, so that the cuts are smooth rather than ragged, and you can create the beautiful loaf of sourdough that you were hoping for.

One of the ways you can tell a loaf of bread baked by a pro from one baked by a novice is the scoring, shallow cuts in the tops of the dough before baking it.

There is little that is more frustrating than baking bread, only to find that you have burned bread on the bottom. The main reason that this happens is that your oven doesn’t distribute the heat evenly. The upper and lower areas of the oven could have different temperatures, which affects the way that heat is transferred to the bread. The key to baking your bread without burning it is to learn how to use your oven. #bread #burnedbread #homemadebread #bakingbread #oven #bakeoven #breadtips

Homemade bread is always delicious. Knowing how to store homemade bread means you can create as many delicious loaves as you want.

Bread can be a fickle animal. Even though it's one of the simplest, oldest foods on earth, it also takes a lot of finesse and practice before you can make it confidently and well. Today, we're going to go through troubleshooting a series of problem loaves to learn how to make them better and more consistent in the future.

Klola • Sourdough_Proven on Instagram: "Bread therapy. It is so satisfying, I could do this for hours. This is the 80/20 formula bread, I thought I was recording the bread after baking it, but I realized after the bread was almost gone, that my phone ran out of storage and never captured it. My bad🙄. Details: 400g bread flour 100g whole wheat @onedegreeorganics 375g water (75%) 100g sourdough 10g salt 6h bulk, 16g cold proof, transfer to the fridge during oven pre heating, then score and…

While most home bakers do not have a proofing box, there is an easy way to proof dough at home. Follow this tutorial to learn how to proof bread in the oven with no specialty

From how to score sourdough to the easiest shaping techniques, find the best tips and tricks for mastering all the shapes and scoring variations of sourdough bread in our complete guide below.