Hi,
In the information about assessing starter readiness, I see this: "Once you gain confidence that your starter is vigorous, you can move its "get ready" feeding to the evening, knowing your starter will be ripe next morning to mix into your dough."

I would think that the starter would be deflated the next morning,...is the meaning here that regardless of whether the starter has fallen, one can start baking bread with it after having been fed the evening before? The part of the quote that is most confusing is "....knowing your starter will be ripe next morning...." Doesn't it have to appear a very specific way to be ready? How can it be an assumption it looks that way the next morning?

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