{"id":7648,"date":"2025-02-04T12:14:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T17:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/?p=7648"},"modified":"2025-02-04T16:46:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T21:46:27","slug":"sourdough-starter-is-active","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2025\/02\/04\/sourdough-starter-is-active\/","title":{"rendered":"Sourdough Starter is ACTIVE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2025\/02\/04\/sourdough-starter-is-active\/20250204_114816\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"4000\" height=\"3000\" data-attachment-id=\"7649\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2025\/02\/04\/sourdough-starter-is-active\/20250204_114816\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20250204_114816.jpg?fit=4000%2C3000&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"4000,3000\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Galaxy S24 Ultra&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1738669696&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;2.2&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;1000&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.016666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"20250204_114816\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20250204_114816.jpg?fit=4000%2C3000&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20250204_114816.jpg?resize=4000%2C3000&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20250204_114816.jpg?w=4000&amp;ssl=1 4000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20250204_114816.jpg?resize=500%2C375&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20250204_114816.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20250204_114816.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20250204_114816.jpg?resize=2048%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20250204_114816.jpg?w=3000&amp;ssl=1 3000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">11:48am Whole Spelt Sourdough Starter this morning after 8-ish am feeding of 50g water 50g whole spelt flour. She&#8217;s ACTIVE!!!!! Trial and error since December 29, 2024 to get here.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Reliable rise after feeding and later when taking some for something else, stir down, rises some more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seems to double in about 4 to 6 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Started this morning with 120g starter, then fed 50g each water and flour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I do not know for sure if it is a 12 hour or 24 hour thing, time will tell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m keeping it out for now and will get rid of my other, now discards, sourdough trials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other ones all have mostly smaller bubbles, rise some, but never truly enough and nothing like this one pictured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reliable rise after feeding and later when taking some for something else, stir down, rises some more. Seems to double in about 4 to 6 hours. Started this morning with 120g starter, then fed 50g each water and flour. I do not know for sure if it is a 12 hour or 24 hour thing, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1788],"tags":[1776,1793],"class_list":["post-7648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sourdough","tag-sourdough-starter","tag-whole-spelt-sourdough-starter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20250204_114816.jpg?fit=4000%2C3000&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7577,"url":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2025\/01\/01\/sourdough-starter\/","url_meta":{"origin":7648,"position":0},"title":"Sourdough Starter","author":"Maisy","date":"Wednesday, January 1, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been starting a starter for sourdough bread making. 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