Answers before you start baking

Yes. Every lesson is written in plain steps with real quantities, so you can follow along even if you've never opened a bag of flour. Start with the free course on sourdough starters, then move into sourdough when you're ready.

Flat loaves usually come down to how the starter is kept, how the dough is shaped, or when it's scored. The courses cover sourdough, starters, and bread shaping and scoring step by step, so you can find where your bake is going wrong and put it right.

If you've never kept a starter, begin with the free course that walks you through building your first one. From there, move into sourdough, enriched doughs, or shaping and scoring, in whatever order suits what you want to bake.

No. The lessons are written for a home kitchen, so you bake with what you likely already have: a mixing bowl, kitchen scales and an oven.

Each lesson is written so you can keep it open on the counter as you go, step beside step, rather than pausing to rewind a video with floury hands.

Yes. The written lessons stay open and ready whenever you want to bake, so you can go at the pace that suits your kitchen and your week.

Yes. The free course on starting your first sourdough starter lets you get a feel for the lessons before you join a paid course.

It takes you through building your first sourdough starter from scratch, so you have something alive and ready to bake with before you commit to a course.

Ailsa Barr, founder and head baker, learned her craft over fifteen years at the ovens of a working bakery. Tomasz Nowak, pastry baker, teaches the enriched doughs.