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Hi! I’m Sakis Stamou, a civil engineer who dared to change my career and turned into a chef & alchemist. I am an obsessed sourdough baker & health advocate who dedicated my life to learning & sharing with people about the real craft of cooking that is rooted in traditions.

After spending several years honing my skills as a chef in some of the finest restaurants and studying & learning the therapeutic effects of food from traditional medical systems, I am thrilled to share with you my first online course "Mastering Sourdough Bread".

My intention is to help make you a home sourdough baker, demonstrating every single step of the process to master the craft and create the healthiest bread you will ever have.

With this course, you will: 

• Prepare, bake and taste the most nutritious, gut-friendly, and naturally leavened sourdough bread.
• Experience a mindful baking process that connects you with your roots.
• Understand why the three essentials flour, water & salt are all that you need to transform into the healthiest & most flavorful bread.
• Advance your baking skills using the most appropriate baking equipment, utensils & tools, that fit your needs and desires.
  
• Discover everything about the flour, such as the differences between heirloom and modern grain varieties, how to select a unique flour blend that maximizes nutrition & flavor, how to mill & shift your fresh flour, as well as understand all the different commercial types of flour.
• Understand how water & hydration affects the texture & consistency of the bread.
• Acknowledge the importance of salt in the bread, not only as a flavor enhancer but also as an integral part of the fermentation process, the growth & rise of the loaf.
• Know inside out how temperature controls fermentation & increases baking consistency, and acquire some invaluable practical guidance.
• Create your sourdough starter, the most essential element of sourdough bread.
• Connect with yeasts & bacteria, understanding how they interact.
• Learn how to harness the leavening power of wild yeast.
• Develop different sourdough starters using different sources of wild yeast & bacteria.
• Explore all the different parameters affecting the fermentation process of the sourdough starter, such as choice of flour, hydration level, feeding ratio, feeding schedule & temperature. 
• Optimize & stabilize the leavening power of your starter.
• Learn how to maintain an active and well-balanced mature sourdough starter, following a regular feeding schedule.
• Learn how to take care of your starter in case you need to hibernate it for short-term or long-term storage. 
• Become proficient in the baking process, following a crystal clear blueprint of the entire procedure.
• Overcome any challenges with baking techniques such as folding, shaping, proofing & scoring the dough.
• Create your custom baking schedule based on your needs & your lifestyle.
• Understand the baker's math & the anatomy of a professional baker's recipe.
• Develop your custom recipes using your favorite flour blends.
• Bake a variety of different artisanal sourdough loaves of bread with a lovely open honeycomb crumb structure. 

These are the requirements: 

• Your excitement to bake the healthiest bread you will ever make.
• Your desire to create a bread with a honeycomb crumb structure, a chewy texture, and a blistered crust.
• Some basic or more advanced baking equipment, kitchen utensils & tools. 

This course is for you if: 

• You are a beginner or intermediate baker who wants to hone your skills.
• You are passionate about baking and you want to understand what real naturally leavened sourdough bread is.
• You have tried making sourdough bread without success and you want to master it.
• You want to change your eating habits and protect your health by incorporating more nutritious & digestible foods into your diet.
• You are or wanna-be a food educator, professional baker, or chef that knows everything about real sourdough bread.