Feed at regular intervals. Your friends may have some instructions but once every 12 hours is often a good benchmark. Do you have a scale? Measuring out in grams is best for feeding. 1:1 ratio of water to flour is pretty standard.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @flyingteacosy
If it's bubbly, that's good. It can have a range of smells, my sourdough starter at it's best peak smells fruity and yeasty, almost like wine or beer. When it needs to be fed it may smell much more alcohol-y or like acetone. That is normal though.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
Thank you!! If I can pick your brains: how would I know if I fed it too much or too little of the water/flour mix?
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Replying to @flyingteacosy
I feed my starter varying amounts all the time, so it's hard to say. Usually you're safe feeding it a lot at a time, because it will just eat through the food. Judging by how bubbly it is in 12 hours you can adjust your feed times. Feeding it too little is more a problem
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @flyingteacosy
because it will get hungry again soon, and you might see a dark liquid form (hooch) which is alcohol that usually people drain off but it means it needs feeding. So it really depends on the starter. I keep about 300 grams of starter at any given time.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
Thank you! Okay so I fed it late-ish last night, with what was about.. 1/2 the volume of the original? So I could give it a bit more than that this time I guess- it's defo bubbly and it's expanded since last night. I want to grow it a bunch before trying out using some
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Replying to @flyingteacosy
That sounds fine to me. I made a mistake back when I first started my sourdough of adding way too much water to flour, and the water was just collecting on top because it wasn't absorbing into the dough. But I wasn't measuring properly.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @flyingteacosy
I didn't truly understand how different 10 grams of water is to flour in terms of volume. It's a big difference haha.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
Oooooops. (I measured by volume last night. Will use the scale today!)
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Replying to @flyingteacosy @AdmiralHip
Also can I just reiterate that this conversation is doing nothing to change my notion that all of this is clearly magic or alchemy?
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lmao I've done more math in the last three months than I ever have in the previous 10 years of my life since I started making bread. It's definitely a weird thing, seeing something grow on your counter.
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