My dear, sweet husband tried the Joshua Weissman sourdough recipe.
https://www.joshuaweissman.com/recipes/crispy-tangy-homemade-sourdough-recipe#recipe
He used the recipe but for cooking took tips from his sister who uses rice under the parchment paper. Well she forgot to tell him that he had to use parchment paper.
I unfortunately don’t have a picture of what the dough looked like when he was trying to “shape” them. Liquid, flat and under proved. This is his first time making sourdough and we are laughing our asses off!
by Havinley
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He won’t learn to do better, unless he keeps practicing.
He’ll do better next time.
I shouldn’t have laughed as hard as I did, but here we are! 🤣
All jokes aside, tell him not to give up, give him encouragement, and keep on tweaking the recipe/technique until you get the loaf of your dreams!
Omg😂 tell him to keep practicing! He’ll get there!
Don’t discourage him. It’s all in the starter, few good 4 fold stretch 40 min apart, then a bulk fermentation and boom..
I did something similar with pie weights. Forgot the parchment, which resulted in a pie crust that resembled a lotus seed pod. 😂
Hey at least he to a try at it
He did miss the part where it says rice *flour*, didn’t he?
Hey now, I started baking sourdough about 15 years ago now and I swear my first one looked like a very large cookie.. and could be used as a weapon lol
He’ll get it!
Yikes, at first glance I thought I was looking at maggots. Thankfully it was just rice. RICE? Whyyyyy? Was it supposed to be rice *flour*? Encourage him to practice. Perhaps with another method.
It can get only better from here! 😁
Bless his heart.
Kill it
On the bright side he is brave enough to be terrible at something so he can learn to master it. Cheers to him mastering sourdough!! 😊
I forgot to add baking soda to my biscuits once and made really bland thick crackers..
lol, my first thought was, “Did he buy buckwheat and forgot to mill it?”
My first failed loaf was bad. Tell him to keep going. It may be discouraging, but if he keeps going he’ll eventually make delicious bread.
Maybe buy him a dough sling for the next attempt 😃
Hello, r/sourdoh , we have visitors.
Sometimes you have to let the train crash itself.
Guessing a weak starter. Our first loaf was the same till I change my ratio.
I love that he’s trying and that he let you share his loaf. Still laughing so hard though
I lol’d at the last pic. We all start somewhere.
I thought it was maggots too and thought its a terrible day to have eyes.
I love that we continue to discover new and exciting ways for things to go completely awry. Make sure he doesn’t give up, the progress from this to his future great loaves is going to be the stuff of legend in your family.
genuinely thought these were maggots
Nice rock!
We should not be giving Weissman space. The recipe is needlessly complicated and probably stolen from someone else.
https://preview.redd.it/p4jumjgyz90g1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=658ec58e881d64717234904dd8148334a9411eb7
But where’s the crumb shot? Lol
Oh my god I thought that was a maggot infested loaf at first glance 🤢🤣
Maggot sourdough
Getting everything wrong is just as impressive as getting everything right
he went to the same baking school as my dear husband, who once tried to make me a birthday cake, broke the Kitchan Aid in the process, and ended up with something so dense we ultimately took it out to the wood-chopping station, only to get an axe stuck in it for the better part of a week.
At least you’ll be able to post it to someone if you don’t want it. It’ll fit through a letterbox