Happy National Sourdough Bread Day (April 1)! It seemed like everyone was baking sourdough bread in 2020 during the beginning of the pandemic when many people worked at home, and it was difficult to buy yeast. Americans are falling in love with sourdough bread again. Why the renewed interest in sourdough bread?
-Making bread can be a form of meditation for some people.
-The “tradwife” trend: young traditional wives who churn butter and garden, “Little House on the Prairie” meets Vogue magazine.
-TikTok: Susan (@fictionalsusan) posted a viral TikTok video in January about Carl Griffith’s 1847 Oregon Trail Sourdough Starter kits that one could obtain for free by sending a self-addressed envelope. The sourdough starter dates back to Griffith’s great grandmother traveling from Missouri to Oregon by wagon train in 1847.
-Fermented foods are viewed as gut-friendly. Some studies have found that sourdough bread is easier to digest than other breads.
Let's take a look at sourdough crackers and some products designed to make baking sourdough bread easier that I saw at the recent The Inspired Home Show organized by the International Housewares Association.
Morgan Murdock, RDN created Unbothered Foods fermented sourdough crackers to be gut-friendly and low-FODMAP after years of working with patients with digestive issues & dietary limitations.
Goldie by Sourhouse
Sourhouse LLC was founded in early 2020 by Erik Fabian, a home sourdough baker, and his friend Jenny Olson, an industrial designer & fellow baker. They invented Goldie by Sourhouse to solve the problem of how to keep sourdough starter warm enough to make bread all year-round. Crowfunding enabled Goldie, the first device dedicated to caring for sourdough starter, to go into production. The warming device holds a quart-sized jar and keeps sourdough starter in the “Goldilocks Zone” of 5-82ºF / 24-28ºC. The company also sells starter jars and silicone marking bands.
Brod & Taylor Sourdough Home
Sourdough Home uses precise temperature (with degree-by-degree setpoints from 5-50°C (41-122°F) to heat or cool sourdough starter and holds one 1-quart/1 liter jar or two 2 small jars. The company’s first product, the Folding Proofer for rising bread, was created by company founder Michael Taylor as a gift for his elderly mother-in-law to enable her to rise bread in her small and often cold South Dakota kitchen.
Challenger Breadware Bread Pan
Founder Jim Challenger began baking bread in 2016 and became obsessed with baking the perfect loaf of bread. After creating protoypes in 2018, Challenger launched Challenger Breadware LLC in 2019. The Challenger Bread Pan is a U.S.-made, black cast iron bread pan designed to trap steam to produce breads with crackling crusts and rich colors. The thick black cast iron delivers radiant heat to the bottom and the top while the lid is designed to provide a tight seal between it and the base.
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