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I just got a sourdough starter from my aunt and was excited to begin but all instructions seem so technical and overwhelming. Anyone who has been there/done that have good advice?

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[โ€“] MadBabs@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

So you said to get a starter going again, sometimes you feed out for days. Is that feeding it several times, or once a day, or just once and wait a few days? I've trying to get my growing now with so far no luck

[โ€“] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

Generally, a healthy starter only needs once a day to get back to full activity. By healthy I mean that when it was put into cold. Storage, it was bubbling and able to increase its own volume from a single feeding.

It is, however, not always going to be drastic degrees of bubbling. It just needs to be able to increase its volume detectably after a few hours from feeding. If it can do that, the only issue will be how long the bread will need to work once you start making dough.