Sourdough baking resources 

INGREDIENTS

When you are looking for your local suppliers, look for busy stores with a high turnover, minimal packaging and owners with integrity.

I am based in Sydney NSW. Let me know your recommendations in your state or country and I will add them here. You can do this in the resources topic in our community.

 

BY STATE 

Note that - Honest To Goodness deliver Australia Wide

NSW

Home to Wholegrain Milling buy these flours and much more from Honest to Goodness  see below

My main supplier for dry goods is  - Honest to Goodness

Wholegrain Milling's sustainable range of flours 

Wholegrain Milling's Organic stoneground flours, Rye- for starter, Wheat - unbleached white and wholewheat for the dough

Organic polenta, coarse ground, for dusting baking vessels

Celtic sea salt, coarse and fine ground, for the dough

Nuts, seeds and whole grains, for possible additions to later loaves

Dried fruits, for possible addition to later loaves

Avalon wholefoods &  Scoop or your local bulk wholefoods shop, in Sydney I like Wholefood House and Taste Organic's shops and Harris Farm have a reasonable range too

Olsson's Marine mineral salt, fine and coarse and their flake salt for finishing loaves

Tasmanian sea salt with wakame or Phyco seaweed salt is great in crackers and for finishing a loaf

 

Berkelo Bakery in Brookvale, Mosman and Manly, sell

Wholegrain milling flours in 3 kg bags and sometimes they also have freshly milled flour too

When you need a big beautiful loaf of Sourdough for an occasion or because you can't bake this week, try theirs 

 

QUEENSLAND

You have Kialla a wonderful producer of organic grain and flour  including spelt

I am using a variety of Biodynamic wholegrains from Victoria, sourced from Sovereign Foods  They have a wide range of austrailian wholefoods and flour.

SOUTH AUSTRALIA 

Four Leaf Milling is fabulous organically grown local flour

 

VICTORIA 

When in Melbourne I shop at Terra Madre  an excellent wholefood store for fresh and dried

I have used this Powlett Hill Victorian flour Demeter biodynamic certified flours in Victoria to great effect. 

I have also used Woodstock flour range. They are a small producer growing and milling on the farm in Victoria

 

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Eden Valley Demeter biodynamic certified heirloom wheat, rye and barley flours. We won't be using barley flour but it's a beautiful thing, low gluten, soft and very heavy. Their Atta flour is light and makes a lovely addition to a wholemeal loaf 

 All About Bread 

BAKING EQUIPMENT LIST

Use what you have, make do where you can and look in op shops and markets, for second hand cast iron and the like.

Mostly, one shop won't cover it all, below this list are some places I buy from.

  • DIGITAL PROBE THERMOMETER
  • DIGITAL SCALES
  • NON REACTIVE BOWLS/JARS
  • LONG WOODEN SPOON/SPATULA
  • LARGE WOODEN BOARD
  • DOUGH KNIFE & FLEXI SCRAPERS
  • TIGHT WOVEN LINEN CLOTHS
  •  ROUND OR OVAL BANNETON
  • A SMALL DRY BRUSH this can be a clean dry wash up brush or thing of beauty such as my twig one
  • LAME/GRIGNETTES/RAZOR BLADE
  • OVEN THERMOMETER
  • A COARSE NYLON OR LINEN CLOTH
  • BAKERS BREAD TINS - 2 x 1 kilo commercial bread tins, heavy for size and narrower at base 
  • CLOTHS 2 tea towels to use over your doughs. Shower caps are popular but I prefer no plastics if possible, wax cloth is handy here.
  • SPRAY WATER BOTTLE
  • BREAD KNIFE
     

WHERE TO BUY

INGREDIENTS AND OR EQUIPMENT BY LOCATION...

AUSTRALIA

Try this page for basics, all in one spot

Chefs Warehouse - Banetton, bread tins, scrapers, bowls, spoons, thermometers, linen cloths +

Simply No Knead in Victoria - steel bread tins - note you must oil these for every bake

Mackies - commercial bread tins + contact by email is easiest [email protected]

I use these tins and love them. Wash with soapy water, rinse well and never wash again! Just wipe out with a dry cloth and NEVER scour them.

Sizing is super confusing.

I have two sizes, their 340g tin and their 900g tin. However that weight doesn't correspond to the weight of dough they hold. I add half the recipe to either and get a small but high top loaf or a lower long loaf, great for sandwiches. They deliver very fast and service is great but I find, email is best way to contact them.

 

Kitchen Warehouse

 

NEW ZEALAND

https://korukai.co.nz/28-sourdough-starter-baking-tools 

https://www.fishpond.co.nz/c/Kitchen/Bakeware/q/Sourdough 

 

UK & Ireland

My spun iron cloche source designed in conjunction with Vanessa Kimbell

Working flour mills map 

 Bakery Bits  for flour, salt, equipment

 

USA

King Arthur - 

A Flour resource within the USA  From Amy Halloran's blog Dear Bread  

 

CANADA

https://breadtopia.com/store/

 

MEXICO

https://grantourismotravels.com/essential-sourdough-baking-tools/ 

 

Green Rhino is Richard Harts new bakery, opening mid 2025 in Mexico City I bet it will be an absolute beauty.

 

HONG KONG / CHINA

This site sells in HK they stock Bob's Red Mill's Flour out of the US

 

A FEW OF THE INSTAGRAM PROFILES I FOLLOW

AND WHY...

@berkelo.au - Jolly good folks, Sydney bakeries

@maurizio - one of my faves! So thorough and generous. The Perfect Loaf is his brilliant book 

@sourdough_librarian - amazing project BELGIUM

@trevorjaywilson - incredible and generous resources! USA

@richardhartbaker A generous, genuine intuitive baker.

@sourdoughsophia - great story, was a micro bakery and now in 3 locations in London UK

@sourdoughschool - Vanessa is a font UK

@iggysbread_downunder - best bread money can buy. Bronte bakery

@bread_by_rosendahl - his techniques are special DENMARK

@elaine_foodbod -  UK

 

If you look at who I follow on Instagram, you will find many others.