Wild Loaf Lab

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Husband & wife team making artisan sourdough tools! Kirtley: Sourdough teacher 2+ years. Josh: Wood magician making magic in our garage in North ID.
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10/11/2026

Behind the scenes to the man not sleeping so we can launch the new "finger scraper" soon and speed up our production in general!

Here's the next prototype we're going to test. I love the design!

What do you think?

10/02/2026

I made this for a 6 year old's birthday present (he requested) and thought it would be a good tutorial for how to layer add-ins during shaping.
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Add-ins:

SMALL ADD-INS
Like herbs can be added after you mix the dough.

Some add it with the water,
During 1st stretch and fold,
Or a common one- during the 2nd stretch and fold.

Experiment. ....

LARGE ADD-INS
Like jalapeño cheddar chunks, candy, fruit

Should be added during shaping.
Less likely to tear the dough, and less likely to bleed.
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Follow this 3 layer and a roll method to get them spread out!

Unfortunately since it was a present I don't have a good end result photo, but there was a lovely swirl!

10/02/2026

Congratulations to all who baked their first (or not necessarily their first) 4 loaves in September!!

I've been thrilled to see your progress pictures and how fast you've improved already! (Some in my Sourdough with Kirtley FB group, some privately).

One already ventured into foccacia- so fun!

Next challenge is coming up - stay tuned!
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I didnt get all my tutorial up (sigh) but I'll hashtag them as I go!....

09/30/2026

Sourdough scoring hack here 👇

This cut is particularly useful on curved lines on your dough.

If you didn't cut it, the top tip part would drag and create an extra line. 😱

Try this out if you want to level up your scoring game and let me know how it goes!

My beautiful bread lames are from Sourdough Bread Lames Scoring

They're my fav!

You got this!

09/25/2026

Yet another overproofed loaf (mom life) that was fun to score.

The Art of Sourdough Scoring by Sour Flour | Brittany Wood is what really got me going in my artistic scoring phase.

Highly recommend checking it out (her bio or Amazon) for all those artistic bread makers out there.

It has so many ideas to try and it fueled my desire to master it (havent mastered it yet lol).

Design scoring makes it really fun to gift your loaves to friends because it brings a big reaction.

It's a fun skill for farmstand bakers to set themselves apart.

Follow for more scoring tips to come!

Be fearless and have so much fun with this. You got this!

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