Fermentation Cast

THIS should be your New Year's resolution: start making your own sourdough bread. We visited our favourite sourdough bakery in Amsterdam, Maarten Langeslag's, "Fort 9", and picked his brain on how to make the perfect starter and most of all: how not to be afraid of sourdough and just start!

For this episode, we went to one of the funkiest events of the Netherlands: Rotfest. During the day we cornered some interesting macroorganisms to ask them all about what fermentation means to them, their worst ánd their best ferments. We discovered black garlic-citric miso, pigeon feather distillate and hybrid soy yogurt that tastes like the real deal.

We are from an apple-producing country, but we produce ánd consume very little cider. Why is that? We walk you through different types of European ciders (including some Dutch ones), how it is made and how yeasts can be either introduced from a pouch or as a WILD fermentation. Cheers!

Baking bread with yeast from a pouch can be seen as cheating, but it is also a great shortcut for baking bread fast. In this episode we will tell you about the origins of industrial yeast, what yeast needs to live, what is exerts and how to bake a bread without kneading.