Submitted by arzajac on January 5, 2009 - 10:54am

Wild Yeast / Levain / Sourdough starter flowchart


I made a flowchart describing the process of culturing wild yeasts.  What do you think?

 

Flowchart v1.2

 

Right-click to save a larger version. 

I deliberately left it a little vague because I found many conflicting points of view and too many details make a relatively simple process rather confusing.  I wanted to describe a process that should succeed every time, although there may be a lot of things that can be done to speed up the process.

Please comment on it and/or improve it.  The original file is here.  It can be edited with Inkscape.

Thanks!

Edit:  I revised it to add a few corrections.

Edit 2009/01/15 - version 1.2 - more clarifications.