School of Sourdough

21/09/2024

https://www.schoolofsourdough.com.au/sourdoughbakers-school/2024/9/20/direct-woodfired-oven-build-with-a-difference

The Back Story Like a sucker for punishment, I put my hat in the ring. As Paul Kelly said, ‘I’ve done all the dumb things’. A new client was looking for a wood fired oven and someone to teach her how to make sourdough, and I fitted both requirements. Not that I have ovens on a showroom floor o...

03/09/2022

Our very own bread, Local Woodfired Sourdough, is back! If you are in the Newcastle/Maitland area, or perhaps on the Mid North Coast, we have a bread delivery service every Friday. Subscribe for decently priced, high quality sourdough delivered to your favourite local outlet. For more details, follow the link!

SourdoughBaker’s Bread Supply Service Want to try real woodfired sourdough? Unlike ordinary sourdough bread.- it’s crustier, earthier and more flavoursome. And it keeps really well. We deliver to the Newcastle and Maitland (NCL) areas each week. We also deliver to Gloucester, Stroud and Booral (...

05/09/2021

While most of Oz is in lockdown, we've been helping get micro bakeries off the ground. Here's a list of our services to new bakeries during their setup phase:

The setup phase of a micro bakery is crucially important to your long term success. It involves careful thought about many aspects of your proposed business. You will need to understand the best way to manufacture the products you wish to make. You will need to work out what sort of bakery capacit

05/04/2021

Only for School of Sourdough page followers, we have a 'bring a friend for free' offer on our next workshop, held in Gloucester on Sunday 11th April.
There are still places for 5 couples. Be quick, if you are looking to do a workshop sometime this year, and you can do next weekend, this is excellent value.

The Sourdough 101 Workshop is an easy hands on tour through the entire sourdough process, from sourdough starter to beautifully baked bread. Warwick Quinton’s Sourdough 101 Workshop has now been running each month for over fifteen years. Thousands of people have learned sourdough using Warwick’s...

04/03/2021

The dates for our twice yearly Wholegrain Workshop (102) are now up on the website. If you are interested in baking with true wholegrain flours and porridges, don't miss these workshops.

The 102 Workshop is all about working with whole grains. We have expanded the 102 workshop content to include whole grain ‘porridges’ as well as an ‘ancient’ grain, Khorosan. Real wholegrain flours are quite different to regular plain flours, and require more 'tricks of the trade' to ac...

03/03/2021

In addition to supplying our famous 30 year old starter to home bakers, we now supply bakeries too!

Regular bakers need a strong sourdough culture behind their operation. They also require a stable and simple ingredient, which is easy to maintain and won’t take up time and thought in the bakery. A sourdough starter gets stronger over the years, as the microflora learn to survive changes in envi

10/11/2020

Hi School of Sourdough followers! Here's a post about my short lived brand new upcycled wood fired oven. It's not pretty, but worth a read, nonetheless.
https://www.schoolofsourdough.com.au/sourdoughbakers-school/2020/8/24/woodfired-oven-saga

20/10/2020

Hi Sourdough learners! Here are the course dates for the next year. Numbers are limited to 10 per workshop, so book early.

The Sourdough 101 Workshop is an easy hands on tour through the entire sourdough process, from sourdough starter to beautifully baked bread. Warwick Quinton’s Sourdough 101 Workshop has now been running each month for over fifteen years. Thousands of people have learned sourdough using Warwick’s...

01/09/2020

First 101 at Bandon Grove School of Arts hall. What a day!

23/11/2019

Tis the time to consider gifts Here's a good budget option:

This Gift Certificate buys the recipient $125 worth of SourdoughBaker or School of Sourdough Products. These can be selected from anything on this website, or at a workshop, or if you are in the Newcastle region, a subscription to our Community Supported Bakery. The $125 Gift Certificate can be used

20/10/2019

Hey there sourdough students! Here's a piece about how to calculate formulations easily. Enjoy!

All over the online bakery world, people refer to ‘bread recipes’. Can you give me the recipe to this or that bread? I have to tell you, there’s really no ‘bread recipe’. There are only ‘bread formulations’. A recipe is essentially a measured bunch of ingredients, and a run sheet as to...