How to Maintain a Sourdough Starter - Simple Method

HOW TO MAINTAIN A SOURDOUGH STARTER // Having a sourdough starter is like having a pet! They need to be fed regularly and taken care of! Learn how to maintain a sourdough starter with 2 feeding options, daily or weekly.

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[lovebikesmustride]

Finally a chanel that explains it easy to understand, those other hipster channels are a nightmare. Thank you

[littlespoonfarm]

Hi Everyone! Well the video for how to maintain a sourdough starter is finally done! Sorry this took so long to get to you. I do all the filming, editing, etc. myself so sometimes it can be a little challenging. Especially with all this rain we've had in my area. I hope you enjoy! Happy baking!!

[johnboyd]

Amy - I’m pretty sure that I have commented before, but I have followed you and your recipes for years. Many are staples for our family: Tomato soup, sourdough bread, tortillas and English muffins. Thank you for your easy to understand and follow videos.

[emilloisdodson-nattier]

Was gifted a starter lastnight & given your site as reference:) Thank you!!!

[shirleyroberts]

Just re-started from dried because I stopped making it for about a year. It totally worked! The starter was back in 2 days instead of the 7 days from scratch! Totally worth having some dried, cool! Thanks for the tip!

[ClausWawrzinek]

I freeze mine into an ice cube tray and put the frozen sourdough started in a jar. I have done this for years and if I don’t want to make bread for a while, I can always just take out one cube and start a new batch of starter from that. I have kept it frozen for over 1 year at times and it works great.

[reinventedhometx]

if by chance you need to use the "back up", what would be the steps used to re-hydrate it? Thanks so much for your videos! They are easy to follow and I look forward to watching the easy sour dough bread recipe video! :) Thanks again !

[JimRuderer]

I'm new to the whole sourdough thing and you made it pretty easy to learn some of the basics, plus that idea for dehydrating some of the discard as a backup... Those are some great tips!

[gerikyte]

I have tried around twenty different methods of baking sourdough and your recipe is the only one that works..thanks

[littlespoonfarm]

Hi everyone! I'm very sorry I haven't been able to answer comments but I will be working on them this weekend to get caught up. I get hundreds of inappropriate comments and it makes it really hard to get to the people that really need help! Again, I will try to get to everyone at some point this weekend.

[malpaul]

Wow! You can dry it and rehydrate it? Why has no one ever mentioned that before? Definitely subscribing. Your clips are so thorough!
Well done!

[michaelh]

I discovered a good way to make my active starter really grow and become bubbly after a feeding. What I did is not feed my active starter for two days (48 hours), and then when I did feed it I gave it some good sprouted rye flour. The starter then tripled in height! Starving the starter for a couple of days made it real hungry and when I fed it it really grew. It never happened like that when I fed it every 24 hours. My starter is about 2 months old and I have never refrigerated it, yet. I keep it fed daily with a King Arthur AP flour and when I am ready to make a bread I starve it a couple of days and then give it a sprouted rye feeding in the morning and when it triples in height I make a flour and then refrigerate it after making the dough and folding it a few times over a few hours. The bread is high-hydration and is 30% rye and 70% bread flour.

[mooh]

Thank you Amy. Really clear instructions to follow. Thanks also for the drying method. That will be useful for when i go away on extended holidays. Look forward to more of your videos.

[peggybouillon]

Your sourdough series is so well done! I stopped making sourdough bread for a year now and feel this time around I can stick with it because of your videos. Thank you!🍞

[joanneharp]

Love the emergency backup!!! Thank you!

[radimm]

Nice informative video, I had no idea it survives when you dry it. Good to know.

[collharti]

OK...you can turn the scale around. I am not complaining. I did enjoy the view.

[cecilepost]

Thank you so much for this video. It’s the first I saw that explained very easily. How do you rehydrate the back up starter.

[sooobyrooo]

Most useful starter video ever. Followup: tried it, FANTASTIC results.

[ms.gichan]

Your directions were so clear and simple. I viewed a number of videos and this one is by far the best. Thank you. I was looking for directions as to how to feed the starter, what to do with left over starter.