Fixing a stalled sourdough rise, step by step
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- 01Take your kitchen's actual temperature, not a guess
- 02Move the bowl somewhere warmer without turning on the oven
- 03Feed the starter before you blame the dough
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sourdough starter has a name and outlives most plans
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reviving a starter you left for weeks
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- 01Smell it before anything else
- 02Scrape off the hooch layer
- 03Discard down to 50g
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the baker's percentage sheet taped inside my cupboard
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- 01baker's percentage - flour is always 100%, everything else is a % of that flour weight
- 02total flour weight - the number every other percentage divides into
- 03hydration % - water weight divided by flour weight, times 100
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bread books that earned real shelf space
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- 01Flour Water Salt Yeast - Ken Forkish
- 02Tartine Bread - Chad Robertson
- 03Bread - Jeffrey Hamelman
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keeping a starter alive with a day job
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- 011:1:1 by weight (50g flour, 50g water, 50g starter)↗
- 02on the counter: feed once a day, but only if you're baking that week
- 03in the fridge: once a week is plenty
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bread books that actually stay on the counter covered in flour
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- 01Tartine Bread (Chad Robertson)
- 02Flour Water Salt Yeast (Ken Forkish)
- 03The Bread Baker's Apprentice (Peter Reinhart)
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