Making a soughdough starter part 2

Feeding the beast

Well, it's been a couple of days and time to add to the post, if you have seen it already I did a post on making a sourdough starter to use to use in the mix for some awesome homemade sourdough bread!
If you haven’t see the post check it out below and give it some love! 💛

https://steemit.com/homesteading/@digitaldan/making-a-sourdough-starter-for-the-best-bread-going

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Any way moving forward there is a special task that needs to be undertaken when growing you own little sourdough beastie. Simon as he has been named now needs to be fed on a fairly regular basis to make sure he grows big and strong (i.e. the natural yeast we use to our bread rise) Awwww they grow so quick One thing I was quite surprised with is how quickly the process would start as within 24 hours (of adding a bit of flour to water) the mix has started to rise of its own accord and it no longer smells of wet flour a new smell is forming still pleasant but with a hint of “off” as can be seen I the picture above it has raised a good few centimetres

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pouring out some of the mixture to replace with “feed”

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So I started with 400g of strong bread flour and 400ml of water, my plan to feed this is to replace 200g or a quater of the mix, every 24 hours. And by day 7-14 I’m aiming to feed every 3 and its going in the fridge I bet some sourdough veterans are doing that sharp inhale of breath as most people say every 12hours, not in the fridge and must be cuddled at every opportunity. Well not my sourdough, rules are to be explored and I ain’t got time for all that while I’m enjoying Steemit to much! No funnel this time 😉

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Once the flour and water has been added it was a case of mixing it up and setting it aside until tomorrow mixing with the back of the spoon as space is limited

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I’m going to repeat this until it a big old jar of smelly sour super starter and then I’ll do a post on the results, hopefully ill be sharing the fruits of our labour with you soon in the form of nice homebaked bread

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Dan