Seven short daily lessons take you from flour and water to a starter that can raise bread.
Sourdough school · Carrboro, NC
One good loaf, understood well enough to repeat.
Most sourdough advice gives you a schedule. We teach you to read the dough: its temperature, its rise, its crumb.
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Twelve lessons around one country loaf, with a live bake-along at the end.
Five hours at the bench in Carrboro. Eight places. You go home with a loaf, a dough and a starter.
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Sat 7 Nov 2026 · 9:00 am ET
Sourdough Saturday: mix, shape and bake
Proof & Crumb, Carrboro (address on your ticket)
Five hours at the bench. You mix a dough, shape one that was mixed the night before, bake it in a Dutch oven and take home the loaf, the dough you mixed, and a…
Bench place 145 CRE8Bench place + starter kit 195 CRE8
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Before you start
No. Everything here is mixed by hand in a bowl. You need a scale, a thermometer and a pot with a lid.
About 24 hours from building the levain to cutting the loaf, with roughly 40 minutes of hands-on work spread across that time.
Sign in and open My library. The course and any workbooks you bought are listed there, and the course opens from the first lesson.
Workbooks are refundable until you download them. The course is refundable within 14 days if you've opened fewer than three lessons. Workshop places can be transferred to a friend any time and refunded up to seven days before the class.