Hi, I have a starter that I was given by a young woman who visited me and it has been amazing. It fits into my regime of baking every 5 or 6 Days and with no interim feeding. The bread is great and rises well. Yesterday I re fed the starter and it was working well, and this morning I mixed up the bread and also fed the starter again and it is giving off the most unpleasant rotten sort of smell. Sort of fetid. I know the acetone type smell you can get, but this is nothing like that. Even the 2 loaves I had rising before cooking had this same disgusting smell when I stirred it to put in the tins. The bread baked ok but doesn't have the same appealing smell it usually does and my husband says it tastes OK but again not as good as it usually is. Could there be a bacteria that has got in and causing it to smell so bad? There was no orange streak that I noticed. I live in New Zealand and have baked bread for my family for the last 40 years and never have I had a smell like this in my kitchen. Sue

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