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Bake with Mike Hands on and Virtual Baking Classes - Let us help you become a better cook or baker! We offer hands on cooking and baking classes.

At the end of class, you'll know you can bake good bread, grill a great steak, make wonderful pasta, brew the perfect pot of tea and host a great afternoon tea because you will have done it. We help people like you to move up to the next level of culinary self-expression! And, equally important, you have fun doing it!

Last year, for the first time since the tradition started, San Biagio cancelled its historic Arches of Bread festival du...
04/02/2026

Last year, for the first time since the tradition started, San Biagio cancelled its historic Arches of Bread festival due to lack of funds.

It's a competitive team sport.

We've talked about The Bread Lab's Approachable Loaf project a few times. Their goal is to make a bread that is, well, a...
11/05/2025

We've talked about The Bread Lab's Approachable Loaf project a few times. Their goal is to make a bread that is, well, approachable for people who are avoiding whole grain breads. They identified a number of customer sticking points and addressed them. https://www.sourdoughhome.com/2021-04-03-a-new-approachable-loaf/

It is a simple recipe and because it uses an absurdly large amount of starter, it is much more likely to rise than more ...
04/14/2025

It is a simple recipe and because it uses an absurdly large amount of starter, it is much more likely to rise than more advanced recipes, even if a beginning sourdough baker makes mistakes, or if their starter isn't really up to s***f. https://www.sourdoughhome.com/101-world-bread/

03/11/2025

Bread doesn't just go stale by drying out: It also goes stale due to the retrogradation of starch. Don't know what that means? We explain it, then show how best to store bread so that you can eat it days on end.

Have you ever had your dough over-rise?  It happens to the best of us, not just the rest of us.  So, whaddya gonna do?Pi...
10/26/2024

Have you ever had your dough over-rise? It happens to the best of us, not just the rest of us. So, whaddya gonna do?

Pizza Today magazine has a great article on this topic that will apply to other baking as well. For your enjoyment and edification -

When is a pizza dough overproofed and how to fix overproofed dough. Signs of a blown pizza dough. What does overproofed dough look like. Pizza rises too much.

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