Hello Kaf,

I used your recipe to create a starter and was not seeing any rise and it was barely bubbling. I had been feeding over 15 days 2x a day continually discarding. I reached out if I should start over and had stopped feed for a couple of days since I heard no response. After 2 days of not feeding got some intense bubbling but was afraid to feed again since no rise and no response from Kaf. (It had been over a week since I reached out)

Finally, a friend suggested that I was drowning the starter so I feed with less water and voila doubling after that feeding. I think you should add this to your troubleshooting because no where have I seen this as a solution and it really worked. Also he had me stir in a bit of the water first to dissolve the starter to make it incorporate evenly in the flour. Not sure if that’s necessary but also seems to help.

I am trying to find a happy feeding cycle that will finally make my starter strong enough for baking, I have been doing the float test but it hasn’t been successful yet. But I am reinvigorated by this spike in activity.

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