How do you know when your starters ready?
Well, this is a starter that I just mix, and what you can tell is that it's very flat and doesn't
look very airy.
If I turn on the side, it hasn't really grown a lot in volume.
What I'm looking for when this is ready is I'm looking for this starter to have risen about double the
size of where it is now.
And I'm looking for lots of little pockets of air that are going to be trapped inside of that flower
once when it's been able to rise for, you know, about about eight to 12 hours.
It really depends on the temperature of where you are.
But depending on where you are in that process will depend on how sour that's how it is going to be.
And so you might want to have a notebook available when you're doing this.
So this way you can start taking down some measurements of what's the temperature, how long did you
let it sit for and what was the flavor of the bread?
Because if you really like that flavor and you want to replicate it over and over again, then you want
to try to get a rough estimate of how much time that's going to take.
Now, a really good trick for figuring out if you're if your starter is ready is you can take a scoop
of this out, put it into some water.
And if it's floating, that means that it's generated enough gas where it is ready to be put into your
flour.
So once when this has risen, we'll go ahead and we'll do the water test.
And you'll also see how much how this starter has changed.
So, again, it hasn't really risen at all yet because I just mixed it.
And we don't see really any air pockets and it doesn't really seem light and fluffy.
So let's see what happens in about eight hours.