Why Rye Sourdough Bakes Differently Than Any Other Loaf

Overhead shot on a rustic wooden table: a dark, deeply-scored rye sourdough boule cooling on a wire rack, dusted with flour, next to a linen cloth and a few scattered caraway seeds.

Rye sourdough bread is not wheat sourdough with a different flour swapped in. It behaves like a different craft entirely — wetter, faster-fermenting, and structurally held together by something other than gluten. If you’ve ever made a beautiful wheat sourdough boule and then tried the same technique on a rye dough only to end up […]