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Welcome to The Sourdough Bakes

Real sourdough, baked in your own kitchen.

I’m Viktoriya. I trained one on one with a champion baker in France, and now I teach home bakers to make tall, open loaves. Not by following the clock, but by learning to read your starter and your dough, one small step at a time.

36 step by step video lessons
Trained one on one in France
For first time and experienced home bakers
Learn at your own pace

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Viktoriya Kreynes training one on one in France

“I bought 3 different courses before Viktoriya’s... My loaves have never been better.”Suzy, a student

Stop following the clock, guessing at your starter and cutting into dense loaves

There is a calmer way to bake sourdough. One that works in your flour, your water and your kitchen, bake after bake.

Without a method

The guessing way

Follow the recipe to the minute
Feed the starter and hope it rises
Watch the clock, not the dough
Cut into another flat, dense loaf
Try one more tip online“Differently wrong each time”
Dough sticks to your hands like glue
Decide others are just lucky“It’s not going to work for me”

With my method

The reading way

Know when your starter is strongDoubled and domed, before you bake
Read your dough, not the clockIn your flour, your water, your kitchen
One method, in order36 step by step video lessons
Know what went wrong, and how to fix itNo more guessing
A tall loaf you’re proud to shareCalm and confident, bake after bake

Starter, dough, loaf

Learn the Reading Way36 video lessons. Instant access.

Sound familiar?

You are putting in the effort. The bread isn’t showing it.

Your loaf spreads into a flat disc the moment it leaves the basket.
The crumb is dense and gummy in the middle, even after an hour in the oven.
Your starter bubbled for two days, then went quiet, and you can’t tell if it’s dead.
The recipe says 4 hours. Your kitchen says something else, and nobody tells you what to look for.
You have watched so many videos that the advice now contradicts itself.

Every failed loaf costs you flour, a weekend and a little more confidence. None of this means you are bad at baking. It means nobody showed you what to look for.

Fix My Sourdough

Show me what I’m missing

Listen to that crust. You will bake this loaf in your own kitchen.

The one shift

Read your dough, not the clock.

Every recipe gives you times. But your flour, your water and your kitchen temperature are different from mine, so the times will never match.

This course teaches you what ready looks like. How a strong starter rises and holds its dome. How dough feels when it has fermented enough. When to shape, and when to wait one more hour.

Once you can see it, you stop guessing. That is the whole course.

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What changes

Imagine your next bake.

You lift the lid. The loaf has risen tall, the crust is deep golden and crackling as it cools. You cut it open to an airy, open crumb.

And for the first time, you know exactly why it worked, and how to do it again next weekend.

Bake My First Great Loaf

By the end, you’ll have:

A living starter you built from flour and water, and know how to read
A tall, open loaf you baked yourself
The eye to know when your dough is ready, in any kitchen
A fix for every loaf that goes wrong
A baking schedule that fits your real week

Everything you need to finally get sourdough right.

One method, in order, with a fix for every loaf that goes wrong.

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36 video lessons across 6 parts, starter to baked loaf
The Bulk Method bonus lesson
The Diagnosis Vault, to fix flat, dense or gummy loaves
The Sourdough Fix Method
The Sourdough Recipe Collection ebook
5 printable charts: bake day planner, feeding log, flour comparison, quick reference, troubleshooting
5 sourdough templates

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One failed bake costs you flour, hours and a weekend. This masterclass shows you how to stop wasting them.

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Your teacher

I baked bricks for months. Then I flew to France.

I was where you are. Flat, dense loaves, week after week, and no idea what I was doing wrong.

So I got on a plane and flew to France. I trained one on one at a working mill with the chef who won first place in the French baking championship. He never gave me a recipe. He made me look at the dough.

I still bake with a 36 year old French heirloom starter. And I teach you exactly the way he taught me, so you don’t have to fly to France.

Viktoriya KreynesTrained one on one in France

I Want the Course

Scoring sourdough loaves by hand before baking, in France

What’s inside

Six parts. One clear path from starter to loaf.

36 video lessons, filmed close up in my kitchen. Watch each one, then do it in yours.

Part 1

Start Here

No more guessing at tools or ingredients. Set up right before you touch any flour.

Part 2

The Living Starter

Know whether your starter is alive, and when it is strong enough to bake with.

Part 3

Your First Loaf

The full bake, start to finish, with what to look for at every stage. Includes the Bulk Method bonus.

Part 4

Smooth, risen sourdough dough in a white bowl

Your Baking Schedule

Sourdough that fits your week, instead of your week fitting the sourdough.

Part 5

The Diagnosis Vault

Flat, dense or gummy loaf? I show you what went wrong and how to fix it, so your next loaf comes out right.

Part 6

Beyond Your First Loaf

7 recipes next, from blueberry and olive loaves to discard pizza and pancakes.

Also included: The Bulk Method bonus lesson · The Sourdough Fix Method · The Sourdough Recipe Collection ebook · 5 printable charts (bake day planner, feeding log, flour comparison, quick reference, troubleshooting) · 5 sourdough templates

I Want the Course

Why not just watch YouTube?

Free videos taught you steps. Nobody taught you what to look for.

YouTube gives you a hundred bakers, a hundred kitchens and a hundred different timings. That is why the advice contradicts itself. This course is one method, in order, from one teacher, built around reading your own dough. No more piecing it together.

Free tutorials

Random order, conflicting advice
Times that don’t match your kitchen
Nothing to help when a loaf fails
You figure it out alone

The Art of Homemade Sourdough

36 lessons in order, one method
Learn to read your own dough
The Diagnosis Vault matches each problem to its fix
Recipes, charts and templates for your kitchen

Get the Full MethodOne method, in order. Instant access.

From my bakers

They were stuck too.

Review from Alydia, a sourdough class student, holding her first successful loaf

Review from Michael H with photos of Viktoriya’s artisan sourdough and baguettes

Review from Gaby with a photo of her homemade sourdough pasta

“

I bought 3 different courses before Viktoriya’s, and her course is very detailed, visual, with videos step by step. My loaves have never been better.

Suzy

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I struggled with bulk fermentation for months. Viktoriya’s method works for me every single time, and now I know exactly when my dough has finished bulk fermentation.

Kath

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The bulk fermentation method is explained and shown in the video in a way that anyone can understand. Even my 10 year old daughter now knows when bulk fermentation is done.

Margaret

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This is for you if

You have never made sourdough and want to start the right way
You have a starter but your loaves are inconsistent and you cannot tell why
You want bread with ingredients you can pronounce
You want one slow, good thing in your week

This is not for you if

You want a recipe to follow without ever looking at the dough
You want a loaf done in a few hours. Sourdough takes its time
You are an experienced baker chasing competition crumb

This Is for Me

Questions

Before you start

I’ve already tried so many recipes. Why would this be different?

Recipes give you times and amounts. They can’t see your kitchen. This course teaches you to read your starter and your dough, so you know when each stage is ready no matter whose recipe you follow.

Why pay when YouTube is free?

Free videos give you a hundred methods that contradict each other. This is one method, in order, filmed close up, with a Diagnosis Vault for when something goes wrong. You stop piecing it together.

What if I’m just bad at baking?

You’re not. Flat, dense loaves almost always come from following the clock instead of the dough. That is a skill nobody taught you, and it is exactly what this course teaches.

I have never baked bread. Is this too advanced?

Not at all. It starts at the very beginning: what to buy, why we weigh in grams, and how to build a starter from flour and water. Then it goes one small step at a time until you are holding your first loaf.

I don’t have time to experiment every day.

You won’t need to. Part 4 builds a baking schedule around your real week, and knowing what to look for means fewer wasted bakes.

Do I need a starter already?

No. The Living Starter walks you through building one, day by day. If you already have one, you’ll learn how to tell when it is strong enough to bake with.

What equipment do I need?

A digital kitchen scale, a large bowl, a bowl lined with a floured tea towel, a razor blade, parchment paper and your home oven. No Dutch oven or proofing basket needed for the course recipe.

Is the course live?

No. It is 36 recorded lessons, so you can start today and rewatch any lesson as often as you need.

How does billing work?

The course is $49.99, one time, 48% off the regular $97. Your access opens the moment you check out.

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