Authors
- Hannah Meyer · Founder & Lead Recipe Writer · 25 posts
Hannah started baking sourdough at her kitchen table after years of pulling flat, gummy loaves out of the oven. She spent two winters feeding a temperamental starter she named after her grandmother before finally cracking the code on a reliable everyday loaf. These days she keeps three starters going on her counter and writes the beginner guides she wishes she'd had when she began — plain language, no percentages until you're ready, and a photo for every 'is this right?' moment. She's convinced anyone can bake a good loaf once someone shows them what the dough should actually look like.
- Marcus Delgado · Troubleshooting & Fundamentals Editor · 20 posts
Marcus came to sourdough sideways — he wanted to stop buying $8 loaves and figured how hard could flour, water, and salt be. The answer, at first, was very. After dozens of dense bricks he became a little obsessed with figuring out exactly why loaves fail, testing one variable at a time until he understood what bulk fermentation and hydration really meant in practice. He now bakes weekly in a tiny apartment kitchen with a home oven and a secondhand dutch oven, proving you don't need fancy gear. He writes the troubleshooting posts, walking through the dense-loaf and gummy-crumb problems he lived through himself.
- Priya Nair · Tools & Ingredients Writer · 11 posts
Priya is the friend everyone texts before buying baking equipment. She got into sourdough while working from home and slowly, sometimes expensively, learned which tools actually matter and which just gather dust. She's baked her way through cheap grocery-store flour and pricey artisan blends, a folded-towel proofing basket and a proper banneton, no scale and then a good scale — and she's happy to tell you honestly where the money is worth spending. Her guides focus on setup, ingredients, and timing schedules that fit around real life and work hours.