Starters & Levains

<p>Fermenting flour and water to rise bread with</p>
the black line shows where the jar was filled with starter

Advice/troubleshooting revived frozen Alaska strain

Hi-Last year I received a wonderful dried starter from Alaska. I found that I was getting too busy to maintain and bake during...

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Is my starter battling an unwanted bacteria or fungus?

Hi all. I've been getting lots of useful information here over the past two months since I started baking sourdough bread. (Thank...

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starter over the holidays?

I am loving this soudough cooking AND this site! There is a whole world our there of sourdough bakers I didn't know about! I feel...

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Experiment: Trying different ways to hibernate and wake up starter

After some dissatisfaction with freezing and rejuvenating my starter, I am experimenting with a few different methods of long-...

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Large batch of dough and starter time

Hi all, I am planning on making a large batch of sourdough bread to sell for a school fete. Do I need to give the starter more...

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whole wheat bread from revived starter

Reviving a starter vs. starting a new one - Bread #57

Reviving a starter vs. starting a new one - that is my internal debate. I freeze and revive, but the choice between doing that...

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lazy starter

It's been a while since I've visited here - and I've moved from Panama to Brazil, in the meantime. I managed to create a truly...

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beer barm

I have left over beer barm...yes that's real beer barm from a local brewery....I didn't use the entire quart jar of it...can I...

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Starter keeps going wrong....help!

Hi there, first timer to the forum. I am originally from the UK and used to make my own sourdough. I haven't made it in 6 months...

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What to do with leftover, immature starter

Hi everyone! For the past three weeks, I've been trying to make sourdough starter. It's finally working, and it seems like it'll...

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