Sourdough Baking for Busy Parents
Learn to bake real, delicious sourdough bread around your family's hectic schedule — no babysitter for your starter required. Flexible routines, foolproof methods, and loaves your kids will actually eat.
Perfect for: Parents with young or school-age children who want to bake sourdough at home but feel intimidated by the time commitment, steep learning curve, or fear of killing their starter. No prior bread-baking experience required.
Real Bread Fits Into Real Life — Even Yours
You've seen the gorgeous sourdough loaves on Instagram and thought, "I'd love to do that, but I barely have time to shower." Good news: sourdough is actually one of the most parent-friendly baking projects out there. Most of the work is done by time and fermentation, not by you. This course shows you exactly how to harness that.
What Makes This Different
This isn't a course for retirees with six free hours on a Tuesday. Every technique, schedule, and recipe was designed around school drop-offs, nap windows, work-from-home chaos, and evenings when you're running on empty. You'll learn a flexible, hands-off approach that fits your life — not the other way around. We cover everything from building your first starter with pantry staples to pulling a bakery-worthy loaf out of your oven on a Saturday morning.
What You'll Be Baking
You'll start simple and build confidence fast. By the end, you'll have a reliable weekly baking rhythm and a repertoire that includes a classic open-crumb country loaf, a soft whole-wheat sandwich loaf the kids will love, quick sourdough discard recipes (pancakes, crackers, pizza dough) for busy weeknights, and a show-stopping seeded crust loaf for when you want to impress.
Your Kitchen, Your Rules
No fancy equipment needed — a Dutch oven, a kitchen scale, and a jar are enough to get started. No rigid schedules to follow. No starters that die the moment you forget them for a day. Just clear, honest guidance from someone who has baked through toddler tantrums, school holidays, and everything in between.
What you'll be able to do
- Build and maintain a healthy sourdough starter that survives real family life — including being ignored for days at a time
- Create a flexible baking schedule that slots naturally into your existing weekly routine
- Bake a classic open-crumb sourdough boule with a crispy crust entirely from scratch
- Bake a soft, mild sourdough sandwich loaf that kids will eat without complaint
- Use sourdough discard in at least four quick weeknight recipes (pancakes, pizza, crackers, muffins)
- Understand the science of fermentation well enough to troubleshoot any loaf that doesn't go to plan
- Score and shape dough confidently, even when interrupted mid-step
- Store, freeze, and refresh sourdough bread to eliminate waste and always have a loaf ready
Curriculum
6 modules · 18 lessons
Your teacher
dave test
Hi, I'm so glad you're here. I started baking sourdough when my first child was about eight months old — which, in hindsight, was either inspired or completely unhinged. It started as a way to have one small, satisfying thing in a day that otherwise felt completely out of my control. But somewhere between the sleepless nights and the floury countertops, I fell completely in love with it. The thing nobody tells you is that sourdough and parenting actually have a lot in common: both reward patience, both are more forgiving than they look, and both turn out better when you stop trying to control every second and just trust the process. Over the past several years I've tested, tweaked, and taught these methods to hundreds of parents just like you — people who wanted to bake real bread but needed it to fit around school runs, work deadlines, and the general beautiful chaos of family life. Everything in this course has been stress-tested in a real family kitchen. I can't wait to help you pull your first loaf out of the oven.
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