[**guest**]

okay, this is really a stupid question, says dh, but he does not have an answer either.

the recipe that i got says to feed your starter once a week. so once a week i take half of it and make bread with it, and add new flour and water to the starter.

but what if i bake twice a week? what is the schedule then? right now i am baking bread 3 times a week, as dh is a heavy bread eater. do i need to have more starter?

thanks!

 

[Spastica]

I'm no genius, but it seems like you need to make two or three starters from the get go. That way you'll have fresh starter for each batch and not have to worry about what needs to be added to what.

Then again, if and when I make chewy, crusty bread, I make it with all purpose flour and beer

No muss, no fuss.

You posted earlier about yogurt stuff too (to which you add two spoonfuls of regular yogurt to). Why not buy organic plain yogurt or regular plain yogurt? Am I missing something?

 

[**guest**]

i was hoping to have one starter, somehow. i don't know. don't want too many jars in my fridge...

but maybe this is not a bad idea. i could have 2 starters.

re yogurt. are you asking why i want to make my own yogurt rather than buying organic yogurt or regular plain yogurt?

1. it is fun to make.
2. 750 ml of plain yogurt, non organic, costs me $5.50. 4 litres of **** milk cost me $6, plust $.88 per kg, so $3.52 for shipping to an isolated community. so 1 litre of homemade yogurt is $2.32, which saves me more than half. and if i make some of the milk from the powdered milk, it will be even cheaper.

 

[NullSet]

I say try it out making your 3 times a week and see what happens. Your starter is just a bunch of bacteria and yeast so the growth rate will be dependent on the temperature that you are storing your starter at. If it's warm you'll have plenty in your jar to make your bread and if it's cold then there might not be enough to get your bread to rise.

Plus, I don't think there is an "exact" formula for how large your starter has to be. I just replace what I use which could be a quarter of my jar or half depending on what I feel like

So you could always make your starter a bit bigger!

HTH!

 

[**guest**]

thanks, apecaut!