May 28, 2019 - 4:46am
Can I do this with starter?
I have a fantastic starter that I fed yesterday morning. But my timing got messed up on the actual dough mixing etc. I had to put the freshly fed starter back in the fridge at 2am.
I'm trying to pull it back out and gently warm it up. Can I safely resume the dough process at this point? I'm going to try it and see, although I've always followed "the rules" with my starter.
Thanks in advance!
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Just on the face of it the fact that the organisms that comprise your starter have been around several billion years should be encouraging. What's a couple of hours in the fridge compared to ice ages alternating with tropical temperatures and being stomped on by dinosaurs and wooly mammoths? Your timing will probably stay messed up but the little beasties have never seen a clock and have no wrists to hold a watch.
Nicely stated! I just mixed them up in the dough. They're gonna stay happy. Good point and thank you!
Why wait? Use warm water in the dough. Mix the starter in the warm water and you don't have to wait. Or even if you mixed it in cold but wait at the dough stage (except you normally find after combining the starter it warms up just fine) it'll be fine.
Following "the rules" can be useful when you lack experience. However, "the rules" can sometimes include a lot of superstition, depending on where you got your copy. ?
Experience (i.e. please go get yourself some failures and mistakes) will teach you that the real rules are
Yep, pulling it out of the fridge and warming it up worked great. No issues.