What If Sourdough Planning Were as Simple as a Few Taps? Our Upcoming App Promises to Simplify Your Baking!

How long does it take you to write out a plan to make sourdough? I’m talking about every step. I’m talking about when to feed your starter, anticipating your starter’s peak ripeness, when to mix and knead the dough, and when to fold the dough. How easy is it to adjust your plan when events in your life cause you to shift your schedule?

Sourdough baking is rewarding but time-consuming! But what if you had a tool that automated the process of planning for making sourdough? What if you had a tool that not only automated this process but also allowed you to dynamically adjust the timeline to fit your constantly changing schedule? That’s the app we’re building.

Yes, Planning Can Diminish the Joy of Baking

Baking is all about precision and organization, but it also thrives on creativity. For me, it’s about finding that Goldilocks balance—too much structure and I’m bored, too little and I feel lost. Baking offers that sweet spot: there’s essential planning (like weighing ingredients and creating the perfect timeline), yet still room for creativity (think unique scoring or experimenting with spices). But let's be real—sometimes the planning can suck the joy out of it.

Simplify Your Baking Journey with the Upcoming Bake a Plan App

If you’re going to bake bread from scratch in the 21st century, you need a modernized tool that helps you plan out your baking. That tool is the Bake a Plan app. Imagine an easy-to-use app that automatically generates a timeline for you based on when you want to take the bread out of the oven, this timeline is generated in seconds, and is easily adjustable to your constantly changing schedule. With Bake a Plan, you will no longer need to write your timeline by hand, working backwards from when you want to pull it out of the oven. You can stop digging up your high school algebra to figure out how much to feed your starter at each interval. You can stop manually rewriting your meticulously created timeline over and over again because life happens (like an event that is going on at your child’s school that you were utterly unaware of…oops), and now you need to adjust your baking plan to fit it into your life without the stress. The Bake a Plan app will eliminate the stress of planning to create sourdough and other yeasted breads, giving you more time to savor your success.

The Convenience Culture Undermines Our Joy in Baking

Big companies, like Pilsbury and Thomas (insert your local store-bought bread), know planning can suck the joy out of baking. Unfortunately, these companies have been very successful in creating the ridiculous belief that we are all so time-strapped and incompetent that we cannot possibly find time to bake anything that takes longer than 15 minutes and requires zero effort. But here’s the thing: folks have been baking in their homes for centuries, and with far less technology than we have available today. Don’t miss out on the huge amount of satisfaction and self-sufficiency you will gain by making your own bread for yourself and your family.

You Can Rely on Us to Develop the Bake Plan App.

As a User Experience Researcher with over 12 years of experience, I have uncovered pain points in everyday activities, such as baking, and generated insights to address them, creating digital experiences that users love. The Bake a Plan app will help time-conscious Sourdough and yeasted bread enthusiasts, like myself, who want to streamline their baking by reducing the time needed to plan a baking project and supporting their baking journey (unlike the typical meal planning apps that lack baking-specific features or tools).

Imagine you have a family dinner this weekend, and you think it would be amazing to bake sourdough bread for it. Now, let’s say you want to pull the bread out of the oven 2 hours before dinner at 5 PM. With this information, Bake a Plan will generate your full timeline, including everything you need for a successful bake. It’ll tell you when you need to feed your starter, how much you need to feed it, the time of ripeness for your starter, when you should mix your dough together, and when you should make your folds. All this comes together so that your bread is pulled out of the oven at the perfect time, and you can share your creation with family, creating memories of warmth, laughter, and shared stories around the table.

Support Us in Creating Bake a Plan to Embrace Streamlined Baking

Is this something you can get behind? If you're reading this, I assume that answer is a resounding YES! I’m glad you’re here, because we will need the support of enthusiastic bakers like you to get this app off the ground! For now, join our mailing list to stay up to date on our progress towards a Kickstarter campaign, and along the way, you’ll receive lots of time-tested tips and pep talks on how to streamline your baking.