Hi everyone, good afternoon! In 2020 I created a great starter, which gave me beautiful loaves of bread. It doubled in 3 hours. Last year I neglected it and it died. I've been trying to create another one for 4 months, without success.
Two weeks ago I started a recipe for pineapple juice by Debra Wink that I saw here. It doubles in 4 hours with whole wheat flour, but if I try to switch to white flour it doesn't double, or if it does, it takes much longer than normal. I've tried several brands of flour. Please help me, I'm very sad about this... making bread is my therapy. Note: don't mind the English, I'm Brazilian and I used Google Translate.
That being said, if you perpetuate a prejudicial feeding regimen, this is what your culture will expect. I recommend cutting the whole wheat flour by 1/4 everyday. By the fourth day your culture will gladly, without prejudice except white flour. Smile...
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Hope you don't mind my pointing this out, Will, but if Caca requires your answer to be translated (into Portuguese?), the last sentence could give the opposite meaning. The white flour will be "accepted", rather than "excepted". 😊
A Republican! I don't mind at all. Thanks in fact.
Just kidding about the Republican remark. Smile...
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I honestly think that some of the things you say are way better than Yogi Berra. And that's a compliment.
The translator is going to have its work cut out for it on this thread.
This really happened. But since I read the answers at the same time it was no problem. Thank you.
I'll start doing this today. Thank you very much for the idea!
The first rising will be the bad stuff. Go from there - and expect things to slow down. Enjoy!
I had a whole wheat flour starter that was like that. It would refuse to behave when fed white flour. I started switching it over slowly: I began with feeding it half whole wheat and half white flour for a while, then 1/4 whole wheat 3/4 white flour for another while, then eventually 100% white flour. That fixed the problem eventually.
I'll start doing this today. Before, I tried to change everything at once. Thanks a lot for the tip!