Sourdough Bread suddenly tastes disgusting! HELP
Hello,
I have been baking sourdough for about 8 years with no issues. We moved from TX to OK and about a month at our new to us (1980) house, my sourdough starter got some weird bubbles - soapy bubbles, and then the bread tasted absolutely disgusting. The rise wasn't great and it tasted like old yogurt/gym socks/bad cheese. So bad that we had to toss a sandwich loaf and two batches of hamburger buns. you could smell old gross yogurt and bad cheese while it was in the oven and it was very offensive. You can't pick up on the flavor as much in the artisan style loaves which is very odd. I decided my starter must have died somehow. I made a brand new starter with all fresh new ingredients in a clean vessel. After about a week, it passed the float test and so i decided to use it. It made 2 beautiful artisan style loaves that tasted fine and the one sandwich loaf which had the bad cheese taste again. Not as bad, but bad enough that no one wants to eat it. Its my usual go-to loaf I've made a million times. Good butter, sugar, salt, flour, starter, water. Basic. Can anyone tell me what on earth is happening and how I can fix it? At this point I'm wondering if our house is infested with some sort of bad microbes! Nothing else makes sense. I'm very sad.
Maggie