aw jeez, this is why I don't have kids. bought sour-dough starter and it says "FEED ME!"

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So my box from King Arthur was sitting outside the front door. And inside is my little jar of starter (apparently it's a offshoot of the 250-year old scion.)

Now it is demanding to be feed! I was just going to plop this thing in the frig until this weekend when I have time to, you know, have a life and feed inert bacteria and stuff.

So, the question is, how long before I have to start this process of feeding/ removing half, starting over, etc.?

 
Marilyn, I think it will be fine if kept refrigerated until the weekend, but....

if you want to bake on the weekend, you'd better start feeding it a few days before. It will take a few feedings before it is viable enough to make bread. (We 250-year-old critters are a little slow to wake up.)

 
Awwwww

monster has arrived at your door!! Congratulations!!! What are you naming it? – MarMonster?

Watch burping this one, as it may explode your house!

Photos please??

 
I have a confession to make re: sourdough starter and my dog

So I got two starters from the field trip the class made to a local baker - on whole wheat and one white. I fed them and fed them and fed them. I started with such small quantities that I was determined to have enough starter to try ALL the things I wanted to try so I fed them and fed them and fed them....... Until I had massive quantities. It was taking over my countertop. I think I had two containers of each. I thought surely I would catch up come Thanksgiving but it was more than I thought. I just didn't have room in the fridge for all of it. So after sitting in the laundry room for a few days and getting a real nice layer of hooch and smelling like I was starting a brewery, I moved it outside to the patio table trying to figure what to do (2 jars, one of each). I finally dumped it on my compost pile thinking hey - this will be great on the compost pile so I dumped it on one corner of the compost pile.

Now Cody has always been a great dog. Let him out the front door and he stays right there, does his business and comes back. Well the last few weeks we've had a problem. He now takes off running out the front door, stops just a second to take care of business then disappears. Running late for work one morning I came back in to get some shoes on and go find him and looked out the back window because something was at the compost pile. It was him. Last Friday morning I heard my husband screeming at him first then me. Seems he was out in the snow digging in the corner of the compost pile.

My dog is addicted to sourdough/hooch or something in that starter. So I guess that makes me his dealer. DH has made me promise to go out there this weekend and dig in that whole area pretty deep to try and stop this. This might also account for his sudden 'gas' spells.

 
Marilyn, I'm right there with you.

mine arrived yesterday to. I wasn't expecting to keep this, I believe monster is an apt title, going since I've done sourdough's before and the image of a snarling monster behind a closed door yelling "feed me" is totally accurate. The instructions for adding, throwing away half, adding more food, throwing away half, just hurt my thrifty German soul, however.

A question, when I take out half (to throw away), does anyone have any experience finding something to do with the effluvium of feeding a sourdough monster that has taken up residence in one's house? Oh Judy!

Any of you from Cincinnati area that would like to get some of this monster when I'm taking out half to throw away, let me know.

 
Richard, one article I read suggested using it as frying batter. I haven't tried it, and

I deep-fry so infrequently that I'm not going to risk not having my favorite beer-egg-flour batter.

The same article said you can keep a smaller amount of sourdough going, so you're only using half as much flour each time you feed it.

I leave mine in the fridge for weeks and weeks, and only start feeding it when I feel bread baking coming on, or when it gets really ugly with gray fluid on top, whichever comes first.

 
I was hoping to try both: the one you used and La Brea's two day horror-fest. You know, a

comparison taste test--slash--insanity test.

 
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