Free PDF + editable BoboCreate template
How to Customize a Sourdough Bake Log
A loaf you cannot repeat is only a lucky bake. This free four-page starter opens in BoboCreate, so you can rename the timeline to match your routine and print a fresh set for every bake.
Both downloads are the free edition. The editable file opens in BoboCreate Desktop.
The editable file imports in BoboCreate Free 0.3.19 or later. It uses one of Free's three design places, and its own artwork does not count toward your three uploaded images. Older versions of the app need BoboCreate activated to import it, so update BoboCreate first.
Print the PDF to fill in at the counter, or open the `.bobo` file to type in the things that stay the same: your flours, your starter’s feeding ratio and the steps of your usual bake day.
The starter records your own bakes. It has no recipes, oven temperatures or times — those come from your own formula and your oven.
What the free template includes
- Bake log with an eight-step timeline
- Formula and true-hydration worksheet
- Starter feeding log
- Three-bake comparison
Count the starter’s flour and water
A starter kept at 100% hydration is half flour and half water by weight. In a dough of 500 g flour, 350 g water and 100 g starter, the starter adds 50 g of each, so the true hydration is 400 divided by 550, about 72.7% — not the 70% the water alone suggests. The worksheet has a line for each.
Rename the timeline to your routine
If you autolyse, laminate or retard overnight, rename the steps so the log matches your day, and keep the same steps in every bake so they can be compared.
Change one thing between bakes
Use the comparison page for three bakes with one change between them — hydration, flour or proof time — so you can see what the change did.
What the full workbook adds
The 24-page workbook adds baker’s math with worked examples, flour and starter profiles, a rise chart, formula and scaling worksheets, fold and bulk records, crust and crumb notes, one-change bake plans, formula cards and a bake schedule planner. It is available on Bobotemp for $5.99.
Open the editable template in BoboCreate
- Download and install BoboCreate Desktop for Mac or Windows.
- Download the free `free-sourdough-bake-starter.bobo` file.
- In BoboCreate, choose Open or Import and select the file.
- Type your flours and rename the timeline steps; preview all four pages.
- Export a PDF and print at 100% or Actual Size.
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The free source is for your own baking. Do not resell or redistribute the design. Physical printing of this edition has not yet been tested.