Sourdough in Cardiff
In Cardiff, Wales, Honest Bread lists 5 bakers known for sourdough, each baking from scratch on its own premises.
Sourdough bakers in Cardiff
Alex Gooch Artisan Baker
Award-winning organic artisan bakery using long fermentation to produce sourdough loaves, rye and heritage-grain breads and pastries. The team bakes six days a week and supplies its own cafes and stockists across Wales.
Brod - The Danish Bakery
Cardiff's first Danish bakery, founded by a Copenhagen baker and making freshly baked Danish breads and pastries on site. It has a second branch in Penarth.
Ground Bakery
Bakery and specialist coffee house baking artisan breads, loaves, rolls, focaccia and hand-finished pastries fresh each morning. It runs multiple sites across Cardiff, Penarth and the Vale.
Pettigrew Bakeries
Family-run craft bakery and one of Cardiff's sourdough pioneers, making naturally leavened loaves over a long fermentation alongside laminated pastries. Operates several sites across the city and trades at the Cardiff Farmers Markets.
Riverside Sourdough
Small-batch bakery making long-fermentation sourdough with organic ingredients and a focus on sustainability and food waste. It bakes from Cathays Community Centre and sells at Riverside Market each Sunday.
Bake sourdough at home
No honest baker near you, or none baking today? The short answer is to bake your own. This is the bench most scratch bakers start with, nothing more.
Sourdough starter jar
A clear jar with a loose lid is all a starter needs to live on your counter.
Compare on Amazon ↗Banneton proving basket
Holds the shape of a wet dough through its long final prove.
Compare on Amazon ↗Bread lame
Scores the loaf so it bursts where you choose, not where it likes.
Compare on Amazon ↗Cast iron casserole
Traps steam for the blistered crust real sourdough is known for.
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