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It’s sourfaux not sourdough!

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ViceVersa Sun 25-Jan-26 14:04:43

I'm confused. I always thought you needed sourdough starter to make sourdough bread?

Retread Sun 25-Jan-26 14:01:54

Crikey! I think you are 🫣

Sago Sun 25-Jan-26 13:30:17

I only eat wholemeal or sourdough bread ( preferably homemade).

This morning in a lovely cafe I ordered poached eggs on sourdough.
I checked with staff that it was sourdough and they confirmed it was.

When it arrived it was clearly not sourdough so I only ate the eggs.

I was asked if everything was ok when staff saw the untouched toast.

I spoke out so the rather disgruntled chef came out to defend the toast!

He was adamant it was sourdough and then proudly reeled off the list of ingredients; flour, semolina, yeast, stabilisers etc then finally sourdough starter.

He really had no idea as to what SD should contain and seemed incredulous when I told him it was simply flour, water and salt.

The manufacturers should not be allowed to call it SD and the chef should know better.

AIBU?