Oven Ready Breadiness

Our new expert craft baker Josh started work this week, as we prepare to offer organic sourdough loaves - and pizzas* from next week. We’ve ordered a large ‘stone’ deck oven, which should arrive by the beginning of February, but in the meantime we can make small batches, as we build the rest of our bakery. We’ve built a wood-fired bread and pizza oven - and fired this up to 650 degrees C today before bringing it back down to 374 degrees to test various sourdoughs. (More on Pizzas next week)… And in the morning we’ll test the theory that we can retain a lot of heat in the oven overnight that will allow us to bake a first batch of wood-fired loaves in the morning.

Our Moorish Sourdough Loaf

We’re making a few organic sourdough and wholemeal loaves this week - to photograph and stick up on our website for sale. We plan to reserve our first 100 loaves each week for weekly subscribers. We’ll probably start by offering 20-30 subscription places over the next fortnight, whilst we await our large oven (and 3-phase electricity)

Our moorish pizza test bakes