Rod & BJ wrote:

> Combining starters probably makes little rational sense

It can make sense when one starter is based on heterofermentative and
the other on homofermentative LB's. You would then make bread from two
starters to effect mainly taste.

Or, you would grow one starter with emphasis on yeast and the other to
emphasis LB's and then combine them to make bread, mainly to affect
rise.

The amount of complexity introduced by a very simple factor (doubling
number of starters) is tremendous.

Samartha


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