If you were thinking about entering the world of sourdough starters, just don’t. KIDDING. But if you do, please learn from my mistakes and assumptions. Once you really get the hang of feeding your starter, you will be off to the races. You will be unstoppable. A friend of mine told me some wedding venues in Italy, owned by families, will gift their bride and groom a sourdough starter that’s been maintained for 40+ years. Can you say dialed in????
What you’ll need:
a sourdough starter
flour (anything without xantham gum is preferred)
filtered water
What you’ll need to order from Amazon:
food grade scale
tall glass mason jar
Now the key here, again from trial, error, contacting multiple resources, and researching endless youtube videos. Their is a very basic formula to the success of the starter.
50g starter
50g flour
50g water
These three above are your formula for iteration and iteration and iteration upon every feed. What does the mean? Okay so you’ve received your starter in the mail. Now it’s time to feed her. What are you doing to prepare this feed? Measuring out the ingredients above.
50g starter
50g flour
50g water
Okay but now I have leftover starter, what do I do with all that? Toss it. Each time you feed your starter, you want to start with 50g. Anything more is discarded (or baked with once you’re at healthy point in the feeding journey).
Day 1-7
Feeding the starter this same recipe, twice a day, every 12 hours. Keeping the remnants of starter in a tall mason jar to see how high it rises/bubbles each day.
Day 7 onward
Now that you have a healthy starter, you can place your starter in the fridge, decrease feedings every two days, once per day. You should take out your starter a few hours before feeding. And you can up all your measurements from 50g to 75g when feeding a starter that is stored in the fridge.
Since this journey I have made homemade cinnamon rolls & pizza dough. Once my dutch oven comes in I will be making the infamous sourdough loaf. Cheers to less food waste, more sustainability, and cleaner ingredients in your food.
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