Recently my sourdough starter suddenly went from being a subaru outback (0 -- 60 in 30+ sec) to a Ferrari (0 -- 60 in 10- sec). It happened in the middle of my second rise and it also went "sticky" at the same time. I kept adding flour, knowing that this was not going to turn out well. . . I figured that I was going to have the sourdough blob and get eaten by the bread rather than the other way around. It was okay fresh out of the oven (but waaay too dense), but I just finished cutting up the second loaf to make bread pudding. What was really strange was that the next time I made bread, it behaved normally. I still have no idea of what happened.

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