Sourdough Starter is DONE
”Excuse me miss? Miss! Helloooo! Yeah hi, remember me? The sourdough starter you fed in the morning and put out of your sight to be forgotten? I demand attention!!”
Day 12 of my sourdough starter journey and he’s finally active and bubbly! I fed it in the morning and once again thought I should probably go and buy a suitable glass jar for it, but alas, didn’t. I filled the container a bit too full, and it backfired because he finally decided to be a full grown starter today.
I set the container high up on an open kitchen shelf, and forgot about it. I did some baking earlier today and just wondered why is there dough on the counter, I was sure I cleaned up already. I wiped the dought off, only for it to happen again later. Then I finally realised it’s the damn starter on the shelf that’s spilling over its confinement.
It’s safe to say my starter is now strong enough to be used to make proper good sourdough bread. I’m really excited. Now I just have to make sure I have a good feeding schedule for the rest of my life and I don’t kill my precious starter. I can’t wait to take some of it with me to homehome next week and bake bread for the whole family.
That looks like a very healthy starter!!!
What types of flour do you feed it? I'm using roughly 50:50 White and Whole wheat. <-- Boring, I know ... But I like the taste.
I have been switching it up from day to day, using both rye flour and white flour. I think mine is a bit too sour now actually because I’ve been mixing in the hooch(?) instead of pouring it out, and also I never measure how much I feed, I eyeball everything. So much to learn and experiment with!
You better get good at bread making because when I come up to Finland I expect a warm loaf you know. I'm not even joking. Lol.
ETA? I need to make like 50 practise runs 😁
That's the big question I guess. With the world how it is...2022? You'll have plenty of practice runs I reckon.
Teasing me again.
Haha thought of you when I saw this 😁
I'm an easy target...Gets excited by bread. Lol.