The thing about bread baking is that it teaches one humility before all else. I owned my own café, baked professionally, and spent years turning out cakes, cookies, and desserts with confidence, but ...

Allie has been Lifehacker’s Food Writer since 2021. She earned her bachelor’s degree at Ithaca College in drama and studied at the Institute of Culinary Education to earn her diploma in Pastry and ...

Did you start baking sourdough in 2020 as a pandemic baker? If you're still at it, congrats, since it's not the easiest to master, and it's common to make some of the biggest beginner mistakes. That ...

Like many people in 2020, I tried my hand at sourdough bread baking. I had baked at home before, but when I was furloughed from my chef job — after almost a decade — I decided to try sourdough.