Scrolling through your Instagram feed and wondering why other people’s sourdough loaves look so darn stunning? It’s not a filter, but an easy, gotta-try technique called bread scoring. Here’s a quick ...

The score of a loaf of bread is what's responsible for its design on top, commonly diagonal slashes for long loaves like batards and a curved slash or a cross on classic boules. Bread bakers on social ...

Bread scoring is the practice of slashing the surface of bread dough immediately before baking it. Why? As crusty bread bakes, it rises quickly and dramatically (bakers call this “oven spring”). The ...

For something so simple, bread sure is easy to ruin. I’ve made easily a hundred loaves at home in my life, and every time the bread turns out different. I could follow the same recipe, measure my ...