I want to make sourdough. I want to make it from scratch. There is so much conflicting information out there for growing a starter that I need to medicate myself!
I finally chose a recipe that was 50g of flour and 50g of water, the flour divided 35g rye or whole wheat, 15g AP. And adding the same amount every day for five days. From then remove and replace half every day, or store in the fridge and feed once a week. Sounds easy enough, but it’s dry. Very dry. Like the surface of Mars dry. And on day three, there’s no sign of life whatsoever.
Other starter recipes are confusing. I really need a simple, step-by-step instruction, with precise directions and a feeding schedule that is reasonable, both in time and in amounts of flour (discarding half and adding more is stressing me out; I see dollars going down the garbage disposal! But I can deal with it if the amounts are a bit smaller).
Can some sourdough maven be kind enough to mentor me a bit? I can’t pay you, and I’ll probably have lots of questions. I need instruction from someone I can connect with - you can’t ask a website questions! (Well, you can here. That’s why I love this forum!) Even a link to site with beginner’s instructions for making a starter would be helpful.
The more often I fail, the more determined I become to succeed. (That’s probably a famous quote, or a paraphrase of one. But I don’t know who.)
I finally chose a recipe that was 50g of flour and 50g of water, the flour divided 35g rye or whole wheat, 15g AP. And adding the same amount every day for five days. From then remove and replace half every day, or store in the fridge and feed once a week. Sounds easy enough, but it’s dry. Very dry. Like the surface of Mars dry. And on day three, there’s no sign of life whatsoever.
Other starter recipes are confusing. I really need a simple, step-by-step instruction, with precise directions and a feeding schedule that is reasonable, both in time and in amounts of flour (discarding half and adding more is stressing me out; I see dollars going down the garbage disposal! But I can deal with it if the amounts are a bit smaller).
Can some sourdough maven be kind enough to mentor me a bit? I can’t pay you, and I’ll probably have lots of questions. I need instruction from someone I can connect with - you can’t ask a website questions! (Well, you can here. That’s why I love this forum!) Even a link to site with beginner’s instructions for making a starter would be helpful.
The more often I fail, the more determined I become to succeed. (That’s probably a famous quote, or a paraphrase of one. But I don’t know who.)