San Francisco Baking Institute

SFBI is a school. Its site calls the San Francisco Baking Institute a U.S. school dedicated to artisan bread and pastry education, and it publishes the address 525 DNA Way, South San Francisco, CA 94080 ¹. That is the same peninsula geography as a mill such as Giusto's Vita-Grain — next to the city, not inside it.

The about page dates founding to 1996 by Michel Suas and describes hands-on training in bread, viennoiserie, and pastry ². The institute describes itself as “world-renowned” and as the “only school” of its kind in the United States ².

Dough temperature is Desired dough temperature; fermentation is Sourdough; the oven is Baking the loaf. A nearby production bakery is Acme Bread Company.