Sourdough Starter's Need To Breath
Mar 04, 2006 | From the kitchen of Rose
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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Sara
01/18/2011 06:58 PM
to it*
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Sara
01/18/2011 06:56 PM
Yes, the sourdough is supposed to have sour smell do it while in the process of becoming the full starter.
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flash gordon
11/09/2010 11:06 AM
I am new to sourdough baking and have a starter going into its second day. It is frothing well but smells a bit cheesy/sour.
Do you think that this OK so far?
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Rose
04/08/2006 10:03 PM
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.
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Gillian
04/02/2006 04:05 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.
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