Hello,
I had to refrigerate my starter just when was becoming established as I ran out of flour. I pulled it out of the fridge after 6 days this morning and it has a puprle tint to the hooch. Do I have to completely throw out the starter because of the purprle tint? It smells gently like sour/yeast. The last feeding was a little of AP flour and mostly spelt flour, as that is all the flour that I had left in the house at the time. I am a novice, so any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you
Looks fine to me... Nice looking starter I’d say. Just stir the hooch back in and feed as normal.
You are keeping a LOT of starter there by the way... I keep about a tenth of that !
I’d say you’ll be fine feeding it with AP - although try to put in a bit of wholewheat when you can get some...
Thank you for your advice. I just got some Central Milling flour in the mail, Beehive and Bakers Craft. Thanks!
The hooch on my starter after being left in the fridge for a few weeks is a similar colour. I wouldn’t worry about it either. And I agree with the others, you can greatly reduce the amount of starter you keep in the fridge and save on the flour you’re using to feed it.