October 8, 2020 - 2:56pm
Increase for Volume Baking
Hi! So I currently feed my starter as follows 40g Starter/40g water/40g flour. I’m unsure how to increase that without discarding and feeding with new starter,flour and water. at the scheduled feeding time, do I just add more flour and water to the last feed to increase it? Thanks!!
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Chenoa, what do you want to do? If you want to end up with more than 120 grams of starter, you have 2 options. Either refresh twice at the ratio 1:1:1 , so for example, if you want to end up with 240 grams of starter, the first refresh would be 30:30:30 and when that starter matured, you can discard 10, and take 80 grams of starter from the first refresh , and add 80 flour, and 80 water. The other option is to change your ratio - some go as high as 1:5:5 so to do that, you would start with 22 grams of starter, and add 110 water and 110 flour - it will take much longer to mature since the flour and water are much higher, but you would only have one refresh.