Well, it worked spectacularly well!

This week, I made too much starter. In anticaption of baking, I built up the sourdough. (I had somehow neglected to save any the last time I baked, so I had no storage starter in the fridge. So, I had to start it up again from dry. I now keep [...]

The sourdough starter is fully revived and strong now. Perfectly done.

I took the dry starter I had prepared a month or so ago. I took a heaping teaspoon of the dry flakes and soaked them in a couple of tablespoons of tepid water until it was fully dissolved. Then I fed it 1/4 [...]

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 [...]

Since I got my Vita-Mix back 2 days ago, I was able to grind some wheat. Yea! I’m still maintaining the starter on white flour since I ran out of rye berries. The quickest bread recipe I use calls for 2 cups of starter. Well, that makes the bread roughly 50/50 white/wheat if I [...]

Well, my dry starter has revived successfully!

Recall that I took some of my storage starter (from www.carlsfriends.org) and revived it last week. I then took part of the fresh starter and dried it. Once it was dry and ready for the freezer, I took some to test it to be sure it would [...]

The starter is doing great. I didn’t discard any tonight so that we’ll have enough for some Sourdough Pancakes in the morning.

While I have the white starter in such good shape, and just now fed, I’m going to try my hand at dyring and freezing some. Well, drying tonight. Found instructions by Carl, [...]

As of the second feeding, the storage starter is no longer turning runny in the slightest. Perfectly spongy, at least doubling itself, may be a little more than doubling.

Having read last night that I need to keep the amount of feeding proportionate with the amount of starter, lest new organisms take over, today [...]

Recall that I tossed my whole grain starter when I had been feeding it irregularly and it changed behavior — got a little runny, smelled not right.

Well, I pulled my storage starter out of the fridge today and began reviving it. Doesn’t appear to be a challenge; it seems quite lively already.

I [...]