Sourdough Starter Feeding
Use these easy tips for feeding your sourdough starter and you'll have plenty of sourdough discard for a delicious baking session this weekend. Make sourdough waffles, sourdough crackers, and easy bread machine recipes with your storage tub filled with tangy sourdough discard.NOTE: Use a 1:1:1 ratio and just use equal amounts of starter, flour, and water. You don't need "exactly" 100 grams. Typical standard feedings range between 100 - 120 grams.
Ingredients
- 100 grams sourdough starter
- 100 grams all-purpose flour
- 100 grams water
Instructions
- Place an empty mixing bowl on a food scale. Turn the scale on and set the Unit to read "Grams". The scale should read "0" if you had the bowl resting on it before you turned it on. If it is weighing the empty bowl, hit the button that says "Tare" and this will set the scale to "0" so that you are only measuring the sourdough starter.
- Scrape some of the sourdough starter into the measuring bowl. Make note of the exact amount you're using.
- Scrape the remaining sourdough in the original container into your long-term sourdough discard storage tub. Place the tub in the fridge and rinse out your starter jar so you start with a clean container.
- Press the "Tare" button to make sure your scale reads 0 grams with the measuring bowl filled with starter on it.
- Spoon all-purpose flour onto the starter until the scale reads the same amount of grams that you started with for the starter.
- Set the mixing bowl of starter and flour off to the side. Place an empty liquid measuring cup on the scale and press "Tare" so that the scale reads 0 grams.
- Fill the measuring cup with approximately 1/2 cup of water. Set the cup on the scale to check the weight. Add more or pour out water as needed to reach the same amount as you used for the starter.
- Pour the water into the mixing bowl with starter and flour. Use a spatula to stir them together until well combined. The mixture may still be lumpy but there should be no dry pockets of flour in the mix.
- Scrape the freshly fed sourdough starter into your clean starter jar. Place the lid on top and store it in the fridge for up to 7 days or on the counter for 24 hours before you need to feed it again.