2handknead started out of my need to share my love for sourdough and it's benefits. I first started cultivating our 100% rye starter in late 2018 and have been feeding it continously since then. Our plans for the bakery started in June and our first sale was of Gingerbread cookies or german gingerbread cookies called Lebkuchen in December 2020 as requested by our front door neighbour! We then moved on to sourdough bread baking, experimenting with different flavours and have produced hundreds of loaves from our tiny bakeroom here in Iskandar Puteri, Johor Bahru

It's me, Dini! I've been baking all my life, highly inspired by my mum. She would turn on the TV just to watch her favourite cooking shows. She has a large collection of cookbooks and spends most of her time cooking up the most delicious meals. My first bake assisted by my mum was some lemon cupcakes with whipped cream.

As I grew older, I started googling more recipes and selling chocolate chip cookies in school (please don't tell my teachers hehe!) One day, mum made a loaf of bread and I was intrigued. We bought a bread maker but didn't use it as much. I started making dinner rolls and was motivated by my family members. Sadly, I got busy with school and stopped baking as often.

One day, I sat infront of my computer and thought real hard about what I wanted to do in life. At that point I was already reading into sourdough making. It took me 2 years to decide that hey, maybe I wanted to be a baker.

So I did. I enrolled in a Diploma in Baking Arts & Science and was so thrilled for the bread modules. I had wonderful chefs and mentors. It was short but I had a lot of good memories and I learnt a lot from my extremely talented chefs, Chef Gan and Chef San.

Didn't manage to finish the course due to Covid restrictions but I still wanted to continue baking. So here I am! Baking, twice a week, for all of you :-) <3