Captain Daggers McTimbers  🏳️‍🌈 🗡

That’s it for this weeks ‘Sourdough with James and Eric’. Next week, we improve again - fridge prove, shit tonne more flour and hit it right on the edge of proving!

Okay, back on my bread-bullshit after a 2 week break and a day later than planned. Eric hasn’t been feeling too great you see. I discovered on Wednesday that he’d turned into a teenager and had discovered alcohol. And by this I of course mean he had a bad alcohol stench.

After a bit of research what I found is that, this isn’t a great sign - but not catastrophic. Turns out, just like regular yeast - alcohol is a byproduct of Eric’s daily life. Well, actually a waste product. When the yeast gets hungry and has no food, it eats its own

So, essentially - I’d discovered I hadn’t fed him enough - and he was recycling his own waste for nutrients... which yields alcohol. Thankfully the cure is to feed him more rigorously for a few days and now the stench is faint, but no ‘hooch’ appearing on the surface.