She was pulled out of the neighbors fridge, fed, given to me, and now she is on the counter and hasn't really moved yet?
It's been 7 hours since she was fed. 1st and second pics are when I got home and 3rd and 4th pics are from just now, 7 hours later! She was given spring water and AP flour. I plan to give her purified water tomorrow and bread flour for her feeding. Is that correct? I am so new 🥹
Thank you in advance! ❤️
She is sitting on my stove in a glass mason jar with the metal lid loosely sitting on top without the ring. We live in Florida and it is 72⁰f-74⁰f in our kitchen with roughly 60%-62% humidity currently indoors!
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Do you have a scale? You’ll want to feed it every day. So while you learn, I’ll tell you what to do tonight.
Eyeball it if u don’t have a scale. Give equal parts flour (bread flour if you have it) and room temp water. Stir well. Sit the lid on loosely and let it go it’s thing.
After about a day, dump out most of it. Keep about what you see now, feed and repeat. You can keep it instead of discard it – which is why they call it discard. You keep that in an airtight jar in the fridge until you need it.
Party pooper my name, it doesn’t matter how old your starter is, the second it is in a different environment, it will be replaced by your kitchens bacteria. But that’s still awesome, I hope you have fun with it.
1:1:1 (e.g. 50g starter, 50g flour, 50g water) should be a great starting point. If it is a bit slower, you can feed parts higher nutrition flours (rye, whole wheat)
Don’t waste the flour. Just spoon out 5g into a small jar and add 15g of water warmed up to like 80 degrees Fahrenheit, mix it up really good so its fully dissolved. Then add 15g of flour and mix it up well so there is no more dry flour. Cover and put in a warm place and wait for the buggers to wake up and eat 🙂
Don’t feed the entire starter you received. Its not necessary and super wasteful.
Be patient with the feedings. It might take a couple days to get a busy starter while feeding it generously.