Making my own sourdough starter

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by username1224 » Sun Feb 11, 2024 5:21 am

Day 6: Nothing happened, the starter looks exactly the same as it did yesterday. I feel that I wasted enough flour and I'm officially giving up on this project :)

by username1224 » Sat Feb 10, 2024 7:14 am

Day 5 : Well this isn't going as expected. It is not doubling in size at all. I removed half of the starter and added more flour and water. If it doesn't start getting in gear, I think I should give up. This is going to be a very expensive loaf of bread!

To be continued.

by username1224 » Fri Feb 09, 2024 7:58 pm

Day 4: It looks like we might have yet another loser. It did nothing overnight. I'm going to feed it late tonight and hope for the best.

by username1224 » Thu Feb 08, 2024 2:08 am

Day 3: I have it in a warmer place than my first (failed) batch. To my surprise, it already doubled in size on day 3 and it's showing bubbles.
I split it into two jars and added 1/2 cup of regular all purpose flour and 1/4 cup of bottled water. I did that 5 hours ago and it somehow has not gotten any bigger.
We'll see what happens tomorrow.

To be continued.

by username1224 » Wed Feb 07, 2024 4:12 am

Day 2: I gave it a good stir. All is well so far. It's getting bigger yet, but that's not supposed to happen until day 3 or 4.

by username1224 » Mon Feb 05, 2024 8:04 pm

Let's try this again :)

Day 1: I mixed 1/2 cup of flour with 1/4 cup of bottled water.
Now it has to sit for 2 days. It looks thicker than my previous attempt but this time I am strictly sticking to the instructions.

I forgot to pick up wheat flour so I used all purpose flour.

by username1224 » Fri Feb 02, 2024 4:45 am

Day 9: It is starting to look like the end of the road. I fed it twice more but nothing is happening.
I'll start a new one this coming weekend, stay tuned.

by username1224 » Thu Feb 01, 2024 6:06 am

Day 8: Meh! I had saved some in the fridge. I took it out, brought it up to room temp, added water and flour, and nothing, it's not getting any bigger.

I added some sugar to it this evening to see if maybe that will do the trick.

To be continued..

by username1224 » Wed Jan 31, 2024 1:42 am

Day 7: Bad news, none of my sourdough starters grew overnight. I am going to have to do some more reading up on it to see what happened.

To be continued..

by username1224 » Tue Jan 30, 2024 5:21 am

Day 6: I removed more than half of the mixture from each jar, then I added some to a new jar and the rest to yet another jar. I then added 1/2 cup of the flour mixture and 1/4 cup of water to each jar except the last one. That one, I put in the fridge and I'll use it at a later time.

I now have 4 jars on the counter and one in the fridge. The 3 jars I had doubled in size overnight. I can't believe how well this is going.

I read a few articles about this last night. You can even dry and or freeze the sourdough starter. Now I would like to find out if I have to give it another feeding tomorrow because it sure looks done to me.
The way to find out whether it's done or not is by putting a little but of the sourdough starter in water. If it floats, it's ready. I'm going to try that tomorrow.

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