. Is this an exercise thread?
HA
Well it’s not very 2021 to brag about where you’ve gone or who you hung out with
On a related tangent I am adopting a baby sourdough starter (well think mail order bride)
It hasn’t arrived in the mail but I’m tracking it like norad on santa
I’ve already read “what to expect when you are expecting”
Some people feed it 3 times a day, but I think I’m going with 2
We were going to have a gender reveal party... but that got complicated
Do people name their starters?
People do name their starters. How many times its fed really depends on temp, chlorine in water, and type of flour you're using. Better go out and buy at least a 10 pound bag of flour just for your starter. It took me about 25 pounds to build one from scratch in the summer.
what kind of sourdough starters y'all messing with? 2 or 3 feedings
a day?!?
once you've got a good starter going, it doesn't need nearly that much care. seal it up in a mason jar, put it in the fridge and it can go for months without being touched.
source: the missus, who bakes 100% of our bread. every batch contains at least some sourdough, the occasional batch is 100% sour. the day before making a new batch, she pulls the jar out of the fridge and feeds it a few times over several hours to build it up. she then refills the mason jar (typically about ~10% of the total mass) and puts it in the fridge, using the other ~90% to bake with. go 2 months until more bread is needed, then repeat.
admittedly my sister-in-law, who is a biology lab rat, is hyper-attentive to her starter and feed it regularly - but even she goes a week between feedings...
neither of them have named their starters, as far as i know.
