Sourdough Disaster

It was always a risk, but we’ve avoided it. Until today.

See, I find that the sourdough proofs really well in the oven with the light on. The light keeps the oven warm, but not too hot, and the sourdough really likes it.

But it’s the oven.

And ovens are used for more than proof boxes.

And how often do you look inside your oven before heating it up to 450F to cook frozen Orange Chicken nuggets for the kids for lunch?

We didn’t look today.

But it gets better.

Lately, I pull the storage starter out of the fridge and I put it in a huge plastic Tupperware mixing bowl so that I can super feed it (I wrote about that process recently). Plastic bowl. Plastic. 450F.

Bye-bye bowl. And bye-bye starter. That was the whole of my storage starter!

So, now I get to test the dry starter I put away several weeks ago. It’s kind of exciting. It’s soaking in water now, then once it’s rehydrated somewhat, I’ll feed it. It’s a very hardy starter, so I’m confident we’ll be fine.

Looks like my disaster planning paid off. At least for the starter. I doubt I’d survive an earthquake quite so easily.