Starters & Levains

<p>Fermenting flour and water to rise bread with</p>

Using a recipe that calls for a different hydration starter...

I have a very happy starter, which I keep at a fairly low hydration and use more-or-less daily for my go-to recipe. No problem...

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What's the best temperature to do a culture proof at?

What is the best temp to do a culture proof, time to let it proof? Also, shold I use it at the peak of it's bubbly activity, or...

Hearty Starter

I had a starter I had babied and used for about a year. Life happened and I starved it in the back of the fridge for about 6...

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Whole wheat vs. white?

A majority of the sourdough recipes I stumble across deal with starters raised on white flour or a combo of white and rye flour...

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How do you know the right time for the next feeding ?

Hi all, Thanks to many helps from people here, I got new starter which seems to be going well until now. What I have done and am...

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First Ever Starter! Have I killed it?

I have just started with making sourdough although I have been baking for a few years. My starter is 100% Organic Rye with 150%...

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starter, day 7 week 2.

My First White Starter

My starter is currently 2 weeks old after today and I'm still unsure on its progress. I have been following the technique from...

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My culture grows so fast and gets watery.

Here is my 1 day old culture. 100% of hydration. Same amount of white flour ( with 10% of rye flour) and water were used. I think...

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Throw it out??:(

My sourdough starter is 2+ weeks old. Everything has been going beautifully and I've cooked with it daily for about 12 days now...

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Determining hydration of an existing starter ?

Hi, I'm ken [ ĸen if the software recognises it, but I'm not holding out much hope of that ]. I've been making sourdoughs for a...

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