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Crumb & Chaos
Flour, fermentation & chaos — honest sourdough recipes from a real, messy kitchen.
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Beginner-Friendly
Recipes that work for first-time bakers, not just pros.
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Real-Life Tested
Baked in a busy kitchen between school runs and dinner.
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Honestly Written
Recipe first, story later. No 1,000-word scroll to the dough.
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From Gilbert, AZ
An Arizona kitchen, a Buy Nothing starter, a lot of loaves.
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Fluffy Sourdough Pancakes (That Even My Kid Asked for Twice)
Saturday mornings are pancake mornings in our house. That sentence has been true for years, even when the pancakes were coming straight from a…
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Welcome to The Crumb & Chaos
Welcome to The Crumb & Chaos. A sourdough blog for real-life home bakers – made in a messy kitchen, with honest recipes, real photos,…
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Meet Liz
The Baker Behind the Blog
I am Liz – a mom of one, stepmom of two, business co-owner, and the unpaid head baker of a kitchen in Gilbert, Arizona that is rarely tidy and never quiet. I started baking sourdough from a starter I picked up off a stranger’s porch on a Buy Nothing group, and somehow turned it into this.
This blog is what I wish I had when I was starting out. Honest, beginner-friendly recipes from someone who bakes between school pickups and work emails, in a kitchen that often looks like a flour bomb went off.
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