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Kettle and Crumb (fictional six-week home-baking course)
You can bake bread. Nobody's shown you how yet.
Kettle and Crumb is a six-week course for people who have never baked a loaf, or tried once and made a brick. Or both.
Here's how it usually goes
You find a recipe with fourteen steps and a word like "autolyse." You follow it anyway. The dough sticks to everything, the loaf comes out flat and a little sad, and you decide bread is something other people do.
It isn't you. Most recipes are written by people who've baked for so long they forgot what they didn't know. They skip the part where you learn what dough is supposed to feel like.
What we do instead
One loaf a week, each slightly more ambitious than the last.