Due to the holiday rush, 12/22/25 Coffee Hour is canceled! But stay tuned for the next one (Breaking Bread Together - 12/29/25)! It's gonna be so good👌🏻 Look over these talking points we'll possibly be discussing⤵️✨️ 🤎Connection & Meaning (Why Bread Brings People Together) • What “breaking bread together” really means beyond eating • Why bread has always been central to community and gathering • How sharing bread builds trust faster than words • Bread as a bridge between generations and cultures • Who bread connects us to — past, present, and future 🤎Vulnerability & Generosity (Sharing What We Make) • Baking bread as an act of care, not performance • The vulnerability of sharing something you made with your hands • Letting imperfect loaves still be shared • The quiet impact of giving bread away 🤎Learning Together (Why Community Matters in Sourdough) • The difference between baking for content and baking for people • Why learning bread alone feels harder than it needs to be • How community shortens the sourdough learning curve • What sourdough teaches us about patience Talk to you guys soon and MERRY CHRISTMAS Crumb Table fam🎄✨️🫶🏼

Today we shared our frustrations about our dough🤣 ❓️Why our dough doesn't hold its shape for scoring after cold proofing... ❓️Is it shaping? Proofing times? Poor gluten development? We're gonna troubleshoot together and tackle it💪🏼Maybe we'll update in the comments of this post when we figure it out🤪 if you're watching this back or just skimming and have some tips regarding this topic, comment them below⤵️💬 ✨️We may skip next weeks coffee hour due to the pre-holiday rush! I'll update with an official post closer to the date! Thanks so much @Kim Wasko for joining the call! It was such a pleasure talking with you😊

Who plans on joining the live call today?☕️ 📞1:30 pm (CST) I may be tackling laundry while we talk dough feel vs recipe "rules"🤪 BUT I'm not forgetting my coffee🤣 Comment below and let me know if you plan on joining us👇🏼💬

☕️Join us live to talk about various sourdough processes and get your questions answered! Or even chime in on an answer😜 See you soon!

📝Note: I'm only going to record & post LIVE Coffee Hours if you join the call!! Why you ask? Because just me talking to you is not the vibe🚫 Coffee Hour is a time for connection, friendship, and of course COFFEE☕️🤪 We don't do lecture-style around here‼️ Thank you @April Sullivan so much for joining and chatting with me! It was such a pleasure talking with you! 📞We talked about: • our experience with proofing times with different sourdough items (bagels, pretzels, etc...) • a little about microbakery life & our local farmers markets • things that are coming soon to The Crumb Table classroom for the beginners of the community 😉 • and a little about how awkward and uncomfortable it is for me to talk to a camera😅😂 Any questions after watching through the playback? Comment them below💬⤵️ Until next week🌾