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Spreadsheet for tracking starter builds

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Martin Crossley

Spreadsheet for tracking starter builds

Just in case anyone finds it useful, I created an Excel spreadsheet to track/plan starter builds (yes, I admit that I'm a total geek ;-P ). Comments, corrections, suggestions etc all welcome.

You should be able to download it from this link:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/c5fze057k4ctctr/starter%20build%20tracker.xlsx?dl=1

To use it please enter your data in any of the ORANGE coloured cells.  These cells permit you to say what weight you reduced the starter to and what volume of flour and water/juice you added, at each refreshment

In case you wonder why the 'S' row (row 31) is an input cell, it's just for you to enter a number that makes the [S:W:F] refreshment ratio into whole numbers - you don't have to use it if you don't want to!

Apologies that it's all in metric measures (grams and millilitres)... that's just the way we crazy Europeans roll LoL

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Martin Crossley

OK here is a version of the spreadsheet as a Google Doc, which might be more useful for people... I guess you'll have to take a local copy in order to enter your own data (sorry, I'm not too familiar with Google docs :) )

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_aDm6Q12vaE1xdidgUinhNKa1o6lG3fA2SWRfolzaVM/edit?usp=sharing