You don't need to be an 'investor' to invest in Singletrack: 6 days left: 95% of target - Find out more
Having a crack at sourdough, I've got my starter fermenting away merrily.
Anyone else intruiged by the magic that is sourdough?
Tried it, didn't really do it for me. I prefer making and eating basic bread.
Yes. It’s Ace. I had to stop though as I was eating a lot of bread. Works best if your starter is always active. One proving, one baking, one eating.
I'll just leave this here. All are well tasty.
https://www.theperfectloaf.com/my-top-3-leftover-sourdough-starter-recipes/
I gave up as I was becoming a slave to it. Sourdough hotels while you go on holiday ffs.
Tend to use the sponge methods now where you make a starter with yeast the night before and mix the next day, A delayed final proving in the fridge overnight then bake the next day.
The tyranny of baking - nothing like the taste of descent bread though.
I just feed mine once a week, then put it back in the fridge. Easy. I've also frozen some just in case.
mine lives in the fridge and i very rarely feed it., perhaps once a month. still going strong after 3 years
Never tried it but intrigued when it popped up on th'news the other day - I shall investigate the links on here, ta. 🙂
63 year old starter here from Tom Herbertt. Been cut with a couple of others too, notably Bertha's in Bristol. Go through periods of high activity, but quite often left for month than a month between feeds. Lives in the fridge. I've recently been trying to make wetter doughs.
my daughter makes much tastier bread than my wife, I suspect it is because my daughter is less obsessive about hand washing.
Making a couple of loaves of rye/white once a week. It's really simple and keeps well. And quite good fun.
And is slowly amortising the £160 I paid* to go on a course to learn how to do it.
*Drunk supporting of bakery crowd funding schemes. "You've spent £160 on four loaves of bread? WTF"
Cool. I've got a simple 50/50 flour water starter going, it's bubbling nicely. I love the taste of sourdough over standard bread
I like the Herberts but isn’t using an old starter just a bit of a gimmick?
FWIW I’ve made a starter but haven’t found a simple enough recipe to make my loaf yet 😂
Yes we have a sourdough thread I think. Just started to move towards more wholemeal breads and they are coming out great. Also doing pittas now.
Tasty recipe here and useful if you run out of yeast.
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/news/a49894/yeast-infection-sourdough-bread/
I make lots of the lovely stuff. Too easy to eat though, so most of mine is for sale. Reading recipes was bewildering, but after a day course it all became clear !
Just made four to prove tonight, the kitchen will smell lovely in the morning
Thanks for that geetee, I'll get to scraping behind my helmet
I love sourdough, but had little luck with the starter. It bubbled away at first, but fairly quickly seemed to go into the 'formaldehyde' stage. I wasn't sure what I'd done wrong, and wondered about buying some starter from etsy or wherever as an easier approach.
Thoughts/ advice?
I was told that the bad smelling stage is common when beginning a starter as there is a point when bacterial growth exceeds the rate of yeast growth, until the yeast reaches a point where it makes the environment too acidic for most bacteria to reproduce, whereby the yeasts take over.