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The recipe, the four stages, and manual timers. Forever.
- The full guided method
- Manual stage timers
- One starter to track
01 feed
02 mix
03 prove
04 bake
Real sourdough, in about forty-five minutes of actual work.
Bubble walks you through one loaf, one stage at a time, and pings you the moment the dough needs you. The other thirty-six hours it just sits there getting better, while you get on with your life.
Free to read · no account for the recipe · works at the counter, offline
Bubble · in 35 min
First stretch & fold — then 45 minutes to yourself.
Four stages, start to slice.
The same four every loaf. You only ever do one at a time — Bubble holds the timeline so you don't have to keep it in your head.
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Wake the starter, the night before
Stir a spoonful of starter into fresh flour and water before bed. By morning it's doubled, domed, and smells like yogurt and green apples — that's ripe. Bubble times the feed to your kitchen's temperature, so it peaks when you wake up, not at 3 a.m.
10–12 hrs · overnight Hands-on · 5 min -
Mix in the morning, then let it rest
Fold flour, water, the ripe levain and salt into a shaggy dough, then walk away for an hour while the flour drinks and the gluten knits itself — no kneading required. One rest timer, one nudge when it's ready for the first fold.
1 hr autolyse Hands-on · 10 min -
Fold and shape through the day, prove overnight
Four gentle folds over the first couple of hours build the structure; then the dough bulks for four or five, shapes into a taut round, and rests overnight in the fridge. Bubble paces the folds and tells you when the bulk is genuinely done — by how the dough looks, not just the clock.
4–5 hrs bulk + overnight cold proof Hands-on · 20 min -
Score it and bake it at dawn
Straight from the fridge, slash the top and lower it into a screaming-hot pot — twenty minutes lidded for the rise, twenty more open for the crust. Pull it at the colour you like, then wait the hardest hour of all: letting it cool before you cut.
45 min bake Hands-on · 10 min
The honest math: mostly, you wait.
- ≈45min
- your hands are actually busy — spread across two unhurried days.
- 36hrs
- the dough ferments on its own while you do literally anything else.
- 4
- simple stages — the same four, in the same order, every single loaf.
People who used to buy their bread.
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"My first three loaves came out like frisbees. Bubble was the first thing to tell me my starter was just hungry, not dead."
Priya · baking since March
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"The fold reminders are the whole product, honestly. I'd always miss the second one and end up with a brick."
Marcus · Saturday baker
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"I feed it Thursday night, mix Friday, bake to a podcast on Saturday morning. It finally just fits around my week."
Lena · 60 loaves in
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Start at stage one.
Feed a starter tonight and you'll have something worth slicing by the weekend. The recipe's free — read the whole thing before you commit to anything.