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First “Successful” Sourdough
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First “Successful” Sourdough


Sharing my first “successful” sourdough loaf process. I say successful in quotations because she didn’t rise too high and she was a bit gummy. 4/10 but she made a great grilled cheese!

I used 550g bread flour, 100g starter, 375g water and 12g salt. Mixed in an Ankarsrum Stand Mixer using the roller and paddle.

I also made my own makeshift cardboard banneton for shaping since it’ll quite new to this and didn’t want to buy every accessory.

I did an open oven bake as well with a cookie sheet pan filled with water on the bottom. 450f for 25 minute, extra 7 min without steam.

Upon reflection, maybe my starter is still too weak/young. It’s about a month old.

My sister attempted to make sourdough twice before this and the dough would turn watery and not even make it to the shaping stage. I think because it’s summer here in Canada so it’s hot and humid. We don’t have central AC so it can feel like 25-30c in here.

So happy this one was able to make it to the end!



by bunniesaurs

10 Comments

  4. Zeldus716

    Beautiful ! That first successful loaf feeling is great! I couldn’t shut up about it 😂

  5. spageddy_lee

    Makeshift banneton is super impressive

    If you were looking for tips can you post more about your method in between stand mixer and bake? Based on the looks of your starter, thats likely not the issue.

  6. Extreme-Edge-9843

    Jeez NSFW flag this post, damn that sound at the start so moist and perfect for bread!

  7. rb56redditor

    Wow, that’s some start. Don’t post any more when you get “better” you’ll make the rest of us jealous.

  10. bubsbrain

    Persobally, it looks good. My baking recipe was 100g starter, 300g water, 500g breadflour. Dutch over bake and would come out very nice when steam was introduced… But mine just died… RIP Breadpool… we are going to attempt reviving some of the discard, though, so … fingers crossed.

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