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The Healthiest Bread in the World: Science-Backed Baking for a Better Gut Heath

Vanessa Kimbell is a time-served baker who specialises in gut health and trained in the art of sourdough bread in the Dordogne. A bestselling author, she holds a doctorate in Baking as Lifestyle Medicine and Preventative Health and is a member of BANT. Vanessa combines deep expertise in sourdough with unparalleled knowledge of the science of bread and digestion. At The Sourdough School, she teaches personalised artisan bread tailored to optimise gut health and genetics. Discover healthy bread recipes, tips, and techniques featuring sourdough fermentation, wholegrain benefits, and personalised baking advice—designed to inspire a slower, healthier approach to baking, eating, and sharing bread.

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ESSENTIAL SOURDOUGH BAKING KIT & VOUCHER

£85

We have put together this Sourdough Baking Kit with all of our favourite and most important items to learn to bake sourdough tinned loaves.

This Sourdough Baking Kit includes the following items:

  • 10-Minute Sourdough recipe book by Vanessa Kimbell
  • 2x 1kg loaf tins with lids
  • 1kg bag of Marriages Organic Strong White flour
  • 1kg bag of Diversity Blend No.0+ Wholemeal Flour – our very own diversity blend flour ready for you to add your own, local or seasonal dried botanicals
  • Dough scraper – for transferring your dough
  • 100g bag of Sourdough School Unrefined Sea Salt
  • Digital folding thermometer – to maintain the required temperature for your dough
  • 5 Sourdough Cards – White Sourdough Starter, Loaf Schedule, Loaf Record Form, Basic Sourdough Tin Loaf recipe, Flavour Wheel
  • £99 coupon to use against our Gold 12 Month Community Membership. This coupon will be found in your order confirmation email

 

Categories: Sourdough Baking Equipment, Sourdough Bread Kits, The Sourdough School Shop
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  • Returns and replacements
  • Delivery
  • Free courses or vouchers
  • Prices

Our Essential Sourdough Baking Kit is ideal for all sourdough bakers, beginners especially. It contains everything you need to begin to bake healthy and nutritious diversity sourdough tinned loaves.

This kit contains Vanessa Kimbell’s 10-Minute Sourdough recipe book. It is also the perfect accompaniment to all of the tinned loaf recipes in Vanessa’s other recipe book and on The Sourdough Club. Free for all to use on The Sourdough School website is our Sourdough Tin Loaf Recipe.

This kit can, of course, be purchased as an essential sourdough baking kit for yourself or as a gift for someone else.

This sourdough baking kit comes with a £99 coupon that can be used to join the Club! Your coupon gives you or a loved one £99 off our Sourdough Club 12-Month Gold Community Membership.

There are lots of questions that people ask about our sourdough kits, and we will be answering these in the tabs below; please refer to these for many more details regarding delivery, returns and exactly who delivers your kit.

Bread can harm or it can heal. Bread and baked goods make up the top three of the largest proportions of our daily calorie consumption. It is impossible to ignore the impact of bread and baked goods on our health and wellness, and yet bread is possibly the most misunderstood of our most basic foods. If bread is a staple food in most households in the UK, why are so many of us content to eat low-quality, highly processed bread that denies our bodies essential fibre and nutrients? Fermenting and baking your own bread is the best way to ensure you are eating high-quality bread that is not only nutritious, but also delicious!

The beautiful thing about sourdough bread is that it’s made with only three simple ingredients: flour, water and salt! However, to make incredible sourdough bread at home, you’re going to need a few bits of kit. What’s a workman without his tools?

When you start baking sourdough, there is so much to learn.  The very first thing is to learn a rhythm, and to recognise what good, robust fermentation looks like. Enjoy getting into the rhythm of the baking schedule, understanding how important temperature and timing are, and learning the basic principles of flour.

This kit comes with a very special flour, our Diversity Blend 0+ flour, part of our Botanical Blend range. With 10+ ingredients grown in the UK, it provides diversity for your gut and an incredible flavour profile for your bakes. It is designed to be used instead of wholemeal flour. It is so much more than just flour.

Whether you want to learn to bake sourdough yourself or are looking for a gift for a food-loving friend, our kits and courses are a great place to start. We are giving you everything you need to get into the kitchen and start baking!

What about a fresh white sourdough starter?

Our White Starter Kit & Course is here should you need to also order a white sourdough starter. We don’t include one in this kit because fresh starters need to be sent by priority/next-day delivery.

Not a member of The Sourdough Club yet?

You can view our membership options here and join.

Please note: if you are ordering from abroad, please do check our ‘Delivery’ tab below, especially the customs information.

Who delivers?

Often people expect that we are a big company but we are not. We work with Ben at DeliverDeli who helps us run our shop. Ben holds all our stock for us and sends everything out on our behalf. Therefore if you have any queries at all with regard to your order please email [email protected]

Returns and replacements

Please see DeliverDeli’s returns policy

If an item is damaged or faulty we can of course accept a return. Please ensure that you take several photographs of packaging and broken items to enable DeliverDeli to claim for any items damaged in transit.

A combination of Covid and Brexit means we don’t always have the exact item listed. We will replace it with the closest suitable replacement. With regard to flour, because we support British farmers we sometimes have limited quantities, so again we will replace like with like as closely as possible, in line with our agro-economical policy.

Delivery

UK and International delivery prices are calculated at checkout, once you have added the items you would like to your cart, and proceeded through checkout, adding your full address. If you are in Europe please see Shipping to Europe 

Unfortunately customs charges are out of our control. Every country has it’s own customs tax and rules. DeliverDeli has set up a system to allow for the customer to pay any customs charges that may be due, online, via an email directly from the courier with your package, to enable your package to be released and delivered to you. Since the UK left the EU this is the best option available and enables the smooth transfer of your items to you. Please do look out for that email, checking your Junk mail file.

Please see ‘International Taxes’ section within DeliverDeli’s Terms & Conditions

If you have any issues with regard to shipping please contact [email protected]

Free courses or vouchers

Occasionally you will be offered a free course or a voucher with your kit. We are absolutely delighted to be able to do this. We think this offers incredible value for money but also gives you the opportunity to learn something new when you buy your kit. We very much hope you enjoy these. If you are eligible for a free course or voucher your code and link will be emailed to you when you purchase, so please do look out for that. The email will be from DeliverDeli. Any issues with your code please email [email protected] or follow this link for how to talk to my team Please do remember we are a small company but we will get back to you as soon as we can.

Prices

Unfortunately price increases can and will happen because the cost of all raw materials has and is going up. We will always try and maintain the prices as close as possible to the original kit price.

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📆 The Sourdough School Clinic - Thursdays 8pm - for students of The Sourdough School 

✏️ In this weekly live session, we cover technical baking questions. Students can submit their Baking Record Sheets in advance of the session.

📋 We look at the details of our student's bakes - the specifics of the flour, timings and temperatures. Using our sourdough record sheets Vanessa will make suggestions on how they might modify, or recalibrate the next time they bake.

Follow the link in the bio to learn more about becoming a student at The Sourdough School 👆

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Do you suffer from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)? It can be tough to deal with the uncomfortable symptoms of stomach cramps, constipation, diarrhoea and bloating. But did you know that making dietary changes, such as incorporating sourdough bread into your diet, could help alleviate some of those symptoms?

Studies have shown that sourdough's long, slow fermentation process can reduce IBS symptoms. Plus, during #ibsawarenessmonth, we're exploring how adding different herbs and spices to your sourdough can further improve both the flavour and the digestion of your bread.

Let's talk about gut health, fermentation, and how sourdough can be a delicious and healthy addition to your diet. Join the conversation and share your experiences with IBS and sourdough.

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THE SOURDOUGH SCHOOL – HAND CARVED WOODEN LAME THE SOURDOUGH SCHOOL – HAND CARVED WOODEN LAME

One of the biggest issues around using a plastic lame to score sourdough, of course, is that eventually the blade will become blunt and the lame could end up in landfill.  So several years ago I talked to my dear friend EJ about developing a lame with a replaceable blade. And he came up with this very beautiful hand carved wooden lame.

Very sadly EJ is no longer with us. Recently a friend of EJ’s who is also a wood turner and carver offered to make these again for us in remembrance of our dear friend.

Follow the link in the bio to our shop where you can find our full selection of wooden sourdough tools 👆

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