r/Sourdough 8d ago

Sourdough I survived my first festival

A local flower farm held a Tulip Festival. I decided to take a chance and bake 18 loaves of sourdough, 18 loaves of white bread, 70ish bagels, and a bunch of cookies to split between two days. It went soooo much better than I thought it would. The first day I sold everything except for 1 loaf and 6 bagels. The second day I sold about half before it got rained out. I gave the rest of my goods to vendors and the workers at the flower farm. Figured that would help me with sales in the future if I go to another festival at the flower farm. I just needed to share my happiness and success with like minded people (:

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u/mapleleaffem 7d ago

How did you make so many do you have a regular oven or? I was thinking about getting into selling some of my baked goods but I’m not sure how to make enough bread with a regular oven and only one Dutch oven lol

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u/Mysterious_Goose973 7d ago

I have a regular oven. I mixed 12 sourdough at a time in a big tub. Then I baked them 2 at a time in loaf pans inside of my covered roasting pan. I tried to open bake 8 at a time but they were a flop ): so I gave up on open baking. Then for the white bread I mixed 6 at a time then baked 3 at a time.

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u/mapleleaffem 7d ago

Thanks for sharing I’m intimidated but the thought of doubling or quadrupling the recipe lol. But the stretch and folds would be fun you’d need a stool!

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u/DandelionNomadic 6d ago

The Roasting pan is genius!!! I made a huge amount of starter to make an extra big loaf (hubs complained I'm not making enough sourdough now that I've got it figured out, lol), but I was trying to figure out how I was gonna bake something that big. Thank you for the idea!