Learn from the country that takes bread seriously: Germany's bread culture is officially recognized cultural heritage, with over 3,000 registered breads. your-crust turns that tradition into clear, step-by-step kits, from your very first starter to loaves you design yourself.
Your task for today with exact amounts, a log for your doubling times, the dome test and float test, and a medal at the end.
Brioche burger buns, focaccia and the hearty Bauernkruste. Each recipe is a PDF in English and German.
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Real loaves from our own kitchen: Bauernkruste, Focaccia, Ciabatta, Brioche Buns and Vinschgauer.
Start where you are: the Starter Kit takes you from zero to your first own loaf, the Advanced Kit takes solid basics and turns them into mastery. A Pro Kit for serious bakers is on the way.
From zero to your first own sourdough loaf — no prior knowledge, no commercial yeast, no guesswork.
Need the gear? The Starter Package has the basket, jars, flours and cooling rack (Amazon affiliate links).
You can bake a solid loaf — now go deeper: new flours, new shapes, and the numbers behind recipes of your own.
Go beyond the recipe book — regional specialty breads, deep fermentation control, and full creative freedom.
Both kits plus the Starter Colleague: the full path from first starter to breads of your own design. English + German editions included.
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No vague "flour and water, wait and see." Our starter method is built to work reliably — follow it as taught and you get a living, active starter. Stuck? Email us and we'll help you fix it.
The Advanced Kit includes a fully interactive hydration & quantity calculator that runs right in your browser and works completely offline. There's no app to install and no account to create. Just open it and calculate.
Bread is culture. In Germany, it's official.
German bread culture has been recognized as intangible cultural heritage since 2014. The German bread register lists more than 3,000 distinct varieties. Every kit is built on that tradition of doing bread properly.
The same ones you'll find in our free guides.
No rigid hour tables. You'll learn the signals — volume doubling, the dome test, the poke test — that tell you exactly when your starter and dough are ready.
Our house starter is the stiff Italian-style madre: mild, strong and forgiving. One feeding formula, one rhythm, no "modes" to memorize.
Grams, ratios and baker's percentages — German thoroughness where it helps, and none of the complexity where it doesn't.
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Your download link lands in your inbox within seconds: printable PDFs, yours forever, updates included.
Work through the modules at your pace. Print what you need, when you need it.
Seven modules as printable PDF downloads: creating your starter (the rye & apple method), the feeding plan with the dome test, your first-bake recipe with beginner shaping, the most common beginner mistakes, a troubleshooting table, a glossary, and a kitchen cheat sheet. Every module is included in both English and German. Nothing physical is shipped.
The Starter Colleague is a web app that guides you day by day while you create your starter: your task for today with exact amounts, a log for your doubling times, the dome test and float test, badges and a medal. It is part of the Starter Kit + Colleague bundle for €19 and is also included in the Complete Bundle, but it is not sold separately. It opens in your browser, needs no account and works offline once opened. Your entries stay on your device.
That's exactly who the Starter Kit is written for. It assumes zero prior knowledge, uses no commercial yeast, and replaces vague instructions like "ferment until doubled" with signals you can actually see and feel.
We create the starter with wholegrain rye and a grated organic apple, a reliable and fast-starting method, and then keep it as a Lievito Madre, the stiff Italian-style starter: mild in flavor, strong in rise, and very forgiving when life gets busy.
If you can already keep a starter alive and bake a decent loaf, you can jump straight into the Advanced Kit. If you're new, start with the Starter Kit first, since the Advanced Kit builds on its vocabulary and method.
Yes. The Complete Bundle gets you both kits and the Starter Colleague for €32 instead of €41.
A Pro Kit for serious bakers — regional specialty breads, deep fermentation control, and full recipe design freedom — is in the works. It's not available yet; the Starter and Advanced Kits stand on their own until then.
Immediately after payment you'll see a download page, and a download link is also emailed to you automatically. Save the files anywhere and print whenever you like.
Email us and we'll walk you through it until you have a living, active starter. No forms, no hard feelings.
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