Phaedra's 2025 Journey

Phaedra · 2025-01-22T08:36:10-0600

I would like to share a very convincing website and channel for making sourdough bread. I wish I find it much earlier. Tom spent a lot of efforts and created these content, I do enjoy everything besides those too much mathematics is involved.

I've learned about many terms and correct concepts from his sharing. So, I would like to share with you.

Also from his sharing, I follow another adorable person - Elaine Boddy

Her this IG post is so touching, and you can replace sourdough with whatever you keep learning and advancing.

Elaine Boddy:

...in this sourdough world of ours, and pretty much in life as a whole, there is no such thing as a fail. Failure does not exist.

I don’t care how your loaf has turned out, it will never ever be a fail in my eyes, because it has taught you something; every single time we make dough, we are learning, and every single time we bake sourdough, in any form, we are learning, each sourdough experience is a gift.

Add to this the fact that sourdough does NOT need to look any certain way, there is no ‘higher ground’, no sourdough police force that is going to come along and tell you that your loaf should be a certain height, have a certain look, or have a certain interior, it just doesn’t exist; what does exist, is the fact that you, as an amazing home baker, has given it a go, and whatever you create it is a success just because YOU made it and you gave it ago.

Now, that’s not to say that sometimes things can’t be tweaked, and I fully understand that, and that is what I help people with all day, every day, of my life, I totally understand wanting to tweak things, but I refuse to accept when people message me and say I’ve had a ‘fail’ today, nothing is ever a fail, never ever ever. As long as we give something a go, how can that possibly be a fail?

And don’t ever ever send me a photo of your loaf of bread and write ‘it’s not perfect but…’, because it IS perfect because YOU made it, and mostly because, what is perfect after all? There is no such thing, one person‘s perfect is another person‘s not so good, it’s all subjective, so please please celebrate your efforts and your achievements, you’re making sourdough. How fabulous is that? You’re doing it, you’re doing this amazing amazing thing, so please celebrate yourself every single time.

Today's baking, ZPTb08 - I made a big one and a small one. The big one was sold before it was made.

This is the small one, for quality management :lol: