Daniel Okafor is a home baker in south Manchester. He started baking sourdough in 2018 after a friend gave him a jar of starter and a set of instructions that turned out to be mostly wrong. He bakes twice a week for his family, keeps a notebook of every loaf, and writes about the ordinary, unglamorous work of fitting bread around a job. He favours rye, a hot oven and a long, slow prove.