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That moment last month my sourdough starter finally doubled in size
I'd been trying to get a good sourdough starter going for about 3 months with no luck. Last month in my tiny kitchen in Austin, I fed it at the same time every day and actually paid attention to the temp. Then one morning it had this big bubbly dome on top and doubled in 4 hours. I guess I was just starving it before with too much water or not enough warmth. Anyone else have that weird breakthrough moment with their starter after thinking it was dead?
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harperp2416d ago
Yo do you think my starter was just gaslighting me for three months pretending to be dead? I kept feeding it thinking it was hopeless and then one random Wednesday it just poofed up like a science fair volcano. I had the same thing happen with my wife's starter in our tiny kitchen in Phoenix - I literally named it "The Undead" because I was convinced it was a lost cause. Now it's the most bubbly, active thing in my fridge and I'm pretty sure it's plotting something.
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fionam1117d ago
Is it really that deep though? I mean it's just bread. My starter doubled in size after like two weeks of just throwing flour and water together whenever I remembered, didn't really think about temperature or timing much. Seems like people make this whole fermentation thing into some kind of science project when really you just feed it and it grows.
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