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Neville Chun Sourdough

Neville Chun is a part-time baker whose bread ingredients could not be simpler: flour, water, salt and sourdough starter. He's been fascinated with bread since he was a child and following some disaster experiments trying to make it, he perfected his recipes as an adult. He's gone from baking 12 loaves a week to 100 - exclusively for the Commonsense Organics stores in the Wellington region.

Neville Chun's Sourdough

This is a ‘ripe’ preferment made from the actlve mother starter, flour and water. The preferment powers the main dough

Ever wondered what 52kgs of organic sourdough looks like (yield about 66 loaves)

The 52kg of sourdough is portioned into 13kg batches

Dough looking more developed after a fold

This is what the overnite 14 hour chill retarded sourdough looks like in the morning. The next stage is to portion and shape the loaves

Shaped loaves are placed into bannetons to final prove. The proved loaves will be knocked out of the bannetons and baked freestanding in very hot bakers ovens

Crispy bacon, fresh slice tomatoes, crumbled tasty cheese, fried egg & mayo, makes an awesome organic sourdough sandwich

Robyn's Brinjal Eggplant chutney, tasty cheese, brisling sardines, cherry tomatoes all grilled up on sourdough slices then garnished with Robyn's bread & butter pickles

Grilled sourdough with tasty cheese on raspberry jam, don’t laugh its delicious!

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