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Sourdough Starter's Need To Breath
MARYN QUESTION
Feedback: I have been storing my sourdough starter in a crock. Now I read that a wire-bail jar is better. Does starter need a little air, or can it survive air free. I don't want to kill my starter! Thanks.
ROSE REPLY
you would kill your starter if you removed all the air by vacuum but there is enough air in the head space of the container to give it breath even when the container is covered. covering keeps it from drying out.
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my thick starter, which i feed once a week, is closed tightly but if it were very active, or in the process of feeding it to make more active you need to have the lid on loosely or it could explode. (this happened to my father 63 years ago when he was carrying starter in a canoe and screwed the lid on too tightly during portage! he still complains about the mess.
Reply to this Posted by: Rose Levy Beranbaum | April 8, 2006 10:03 PM #
In connection with storing sourdough starters, you say there is enough air beneath the lid for the starter to breath. Does this mean that a screw lid, or wire snap lid can be securely closed.
Kind regards.
Reply to this Posted by: Gillian | April 2, 2006 4:05 PM #