Hi Paula, you can certainly maintain a starter with part wheat flour and part rye. I would encourage you to be consistent in the combination of flours you feed your starter, so that it has a chance to become stable with its food source and realize that wholegrain flours do tend to ferment a bit faster than white flour. For more on how your feeding routine affects your starters performance, check out this blog post.
June 3, 2024 at 10:26am
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Hi Paula, you can certainly maintain a starter with part wheat flour and part rye. I would encourage you to be consistent in the combination of flours you feed your starter, so that it has a chance to become stable with its food source and realize that wholegrain flours do tend to ferment a bit faster than white flour. For more on how your feeding routine affects your starters performance, check out this blog post.