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How to revive a dead sourdough starter

30.03.17 By nick Leave a Comment

Having been working with sourdough starters for a while, I’ve seen and done a lot to my creations.  However, when I first started using sourdough I was shocked by what seemed to be quickly dying sourdough.  I would make the starter, bake with it on a regular basis, and be happy.  But if I went away for vacation and forgot about the starter for a few weeks, I’d be disappointed to find a dark mass with icky liquid on top.




At that stage I figured the sourdough starter was bad.  I mean, it smelled fairly strongly (not in a good way) and looked pretty beat up.  So I would eventually end up throwing it away and starting over from scratch.  Truth be told, that kind of sidelined be from using sourdough for a few years since I kept making perfectly good starters and they ended up dying.  I figured I just didn’t have the baker’s equivalent of a green thumb, whatever that may be.

all this time, I was doing it wrong!

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