Finally received my live starter in the mail and fed him his first meal at lunch time. Meet Lewys :) He appears to be responding very well to his first feeding.
Any hints or tips I might need for my first attempt at a sourdough loaf this weekend?
Finally received my live starter in the mail and fed him his first meal at lunch time. Meet Lewys :) He appears to be responding very well to his first feeding.
Any hints or tips I might need for my first attempt at a sourdough loaf this weekend?
Had sourdough starter for years and never had this problem. Its incredibly forgiving on feeding schedules, unlike my cat who will sit on my desk and paw at me if I haven’t fed him by 15:30, his dinner time is 17:00. If I am making sourdough frequently it lives at room temperature and is fed daily but if I forget a day it doesn’t matter, if I am not going to be making much it lives in the fridge and is fed about once a week or so.
Tbh wasn’t aware people bought starter until reading this post, I have always made my own. Suppose if you are very irregular in using it then freezer might be a good idea, we have at the very least sourdough pizza pretty much every week so there is a baseline minimum amount I will use and I can feed it to keep in line with that. My starter lives in a 500ml jar and I just scoop out how ever much seems reasonable for making something, I don’t really measure anything when cooking, just go by eye/feel. If the dough ends up a bit bigger than last time isn’t a problem. Rotate jars occasionally to give the old one a clean.
I live alone, so there are times when I get sick of sourdough, and there are times when I get overwhelmed with life and forget to take care of it. Periodically putting a bit of starter in the freezer means I don’t have to start over from scratch.
When I lived alone I turned excess into pasta and let it dry out to store it until I wanted to have the pasta. Actually having pasta for dinner tonight, might make fresh sourdough pasta instead of using plain shop bought pasta.