Storing Your StarterNot everyone bakes every day, and that’s perfectly fine. Where you keep your starter — and how you bring it back when you need it — determines how much attention it needs between baking days.Room TemperatureDo you bake regularly, several times a week? Then room temperature is the simplest option.Your starter remains continuously…
Recognizing Your StarterAt some point, you stop staring at the clock and start simply looking at your starter.That is exactly what this article is about: how do you read what your jar is telling you?The Four Things to Look ForBubbles. Small bubbles throughout the mixture, with larger ones along the sides and on the surface,…
Developing Your StarterA starter on day 3 is a different creature from one on day 10, and different again by week four. It goes through a process of development — almost a life cycle — before it becomes stable enough to reliably raise bread.Understanding these stages makes it easier to recognize whether your starter is…
Feeding Your Starter At its heart, feeding a starter is wonderfully simple: keep a portion of your existing starter and give it fresh flour and water. Before long, though, you will come across ratios such as 1:1:1, 1:2:2 and 1:4:4 — and naturally, you may wonder which one you are actually supposed to use. The…
Making a Starter Your bread does not begin with dough. It begins with a jar of flour and water. At first glance, there does not seem to be much to it. Flour. Water. Perhaps a few little bubbles along the side of the jar. But beneath that quiet surface, quite a lot is happening. Yeasts…
Starter Science A Small Ecosystem in Your Jar A sourdough starter seems almost too simple to be interesting: flour, water and time. Yet as soon as those three come together, a small living ecosystem begins to develop. Several groups of microorganisms work together inside your starter, with wild yeasts and lactic acid bacteria playing the…
What Is a Starter? Somewhere in your kitchen, in a simple glass jar, something is alive. Not an ingredient you buy and leave on a shelf, but something that grows, changes, gets hungry and responds in its own time to what you give it. That is a sourdough starter: a living culture of wild yeasts…
Bonvia Stories · Flavour & Fire · Sourdough · Starter Your First Steps with Sourdough Everything you should know before creating your first starter. Creating a starter may seem like a small beginning, but it marks the start of a completely new way of making bread. You do not need a special kitchen or years…
Why we fall in love with sourdough The attraction of slow bread Sourdough often begins with something simple. You are looking for better bread, more flavour, or simply something that feels a little more real in your hands. What starts as curiosity about bread slowly becomes a different way of looking at time, patience, and…
