Super Sourdough: The foolproof guide to making world-class bread at home (includes easy-to-follow guide to sourdough starters and dough for home baking)

… but this book has interesting tips and recipes.It’s a refreshing book with things to learn no matter if you are an experienced baker or a rookie.Great purchase!

See title! Seriously a great book. I'm a pretty well-rounded and seasoned home baker, but successful Sourdough eluded me despite hours and hours of research and "breaducation" (please don't hate me). The pictures are comparisons of my first ever attempt (the darker bread, more rounded shape and flatter loaf) and my fourth and latest attempt (lighter colored crust and more rounded cross section). I was able to troubleshoot and vastly improve my baking using this book. It thoroughly covers the basics of Sourdough, down to the science, and encourages experimentation while giving you the tools and knowledge you need to make adjustments to the recipes that better fit the conditions you're baking in. If Sourdough bread was a religion (and maybe it should be), I'd nominate this book to be the Bible. I never thought I'd care so much about a cook book, but the thought put into making this book so encouraging and helpful rather than intimidating and pretentious cannot be overstated. I would have likely given up after my first flat and dense loaf (like I did years ago when I very first tried to bake Sourdough) were it not for the reassuring and humble tone of the author.As a side note, a great quality of this book is that it while he recommends some basic equipment or some fancier flours, he fully equips you to be able to make great bread with no more than the most basic and affordable of ingredients, a bowl, and an oven.

This book is just great. Great attention to detail - lots of wisdom imparted from someone who is clearly passionate and very knowledgeable on the subject of sourdough baking, plus some amazing recipes! Not quite attempted them all yet - but very quickly getting to that point. So far, this is the best book I've come across on sourdough baking.

I've now baked nearly every recipe in this book since I ordered it a year ago. The recipes are fun, easy to follow, and spot-on delicious. It introduced me to things like lemon-poppy seed sourdough and sourdough starter pasta. This makes sourdough accessible to everyone! Couldn't recommend it any more highly.

I have just started reading the book and I love it. All of it - the style, the humour, the way James handles the subject. And, of course, the explanation and the pictures are very well done - you can take them and make bread. But it is not only that. It is a book made for nerds, that's me 🙂 Great book!