Mike Pearce wrote:

... My conclusion... making a starter is not that difficult...

My gut feel is that most people who run into problems with starting
starters, as someone else eluded to, is impatience... just continue feeding,
eventually you
will end up with a good starter.

Maybe yes, maybe not. Over a span of thirty plus years, I tried many times to
get a starter going. usually after getting fired up by reading some lying book
or phoney article. I got some things to bubble a bit , but never anything that
would make bread. It wasn't until Carl was kind enough to send me a start that
I was successful with sourdough. I don't think that my problem was impatience.
More like ignorance.

I was, however, always able to make a rye sour on the occaisions that I thought
to make some form of rye bread. Too bad that I was not clever enough to realise
that a rye sour and sourdough were the same thing , just different flours. If I
had realised that I could have just switched flours on a rye sour and had a
white flour starter years earlier.

Maybe I might even be closer to finding the Holy Grail of a white, free form,
high rise, big holey, sour, tasty, sourdough loaf.

Ticker laughs out loud at the thought of my ignorance, but is kind enough to
withold comment on the issue of stupidity.

Regards,

Charles


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