How to Score Sourdough Bread: Full Guide

How to Score Bread Dough: Full Guide

Learning to make great sourdough bread comes with many challenges. And scoring bread successfully was surprisingly one of the hardest parts for me to get right.

How to Score Bread Dough: Full Guide

Here are 7 steps to scoring bread dough successfully: 1. You’ll need an extremely sharp blade. 2. Make slashes to the dough swiftly; with confidence and authority.

The cuts or the scoring of the bread dough are made with two purposes in mind: 1. To control the way the bread expands in the oven 2. To control the way the loaf will look

The Purpose of Scoring Bread

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How to Score Bread Dough: Full Guide