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How do you know when your starters ready?

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Well, this is a starter that I just mix, and what you can tell is that it's very flat and doesn't

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look very airy.

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If I turn on the side, it hasn't really grown a lot in volume.

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What I'm looking for when this is ready is I'm looking for this starter to have risen about double the

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size of where it is now.

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And I'm looking for lots of little pockets of air that are going to be trapped inside of that flower

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once when it's been able to rise for, you know, about about eight to 12 hours.

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It really depends on the temperature of where you are.

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But depending on where you are in that process will depend on how sour that's how it is going to be.

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And so you might want to have a notebook available when you're doing this.

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So this way you can start taking down some measurements of what's the temperature, how long did you

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let it sit for and what was the flavor of the bread?

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Because if you really like that flavor and you want to replicate it over and over again, then you want

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to try to get a rough estimate of how much time that's going to take.

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Now, a really good trick for figuring out if you're if your starter is ready is you can take a scoop

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of this out, put it into some water.

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And if it's floating, that means that it's generated enough gas where it is ready to be put into your

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flour.

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So once when this has risen, we'll go ahead and we'll do the water test.

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And you'll also see how much how this starter has changed.

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So, again, it hasn't really risen at all yet because I just mixed it.

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And we don't see really any air pockets and it doesn't really seem light and fluffy.

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So let's see what happens in about eight hours.