The Baker's Hotline

February 3, 2017 at 11:57am

In reply to by Krisitn (not verified)

Kristin, the process can take time, so we'd urge you to hang on to your patience. If your starter is bubbling even just a little, then there is some activity there that can be developed! In addition to temperature and frequent feeding, feeding your starter a balanced meal is also hugely important to getting it active. To be sure you're getting the correct amount of flour into each feeding, we recommend using a scale whenever possible. If you do measure by volume, it's important to follow our method for measuring flour to get the relatively light cup (4 oz) intended. This is a fairly common pitfall, and it may simply be that you need to lighten up your starter a bit to allow it to rise more fully. Other common problems include not discarding before each feeding and feeding with a bleached flour. We encourage you to give our free and friendly Baker's Hotline a call so that we can talk through the different possible problem areas and solutions: 855-371-BAKE. Mollie@KAF
Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Plain text

  • No HTML tags allowed.
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
  • Web page addresses and email addresses turn into links automatically.
The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.