April 10, 2010 - 1:00pm
Starter tempuratures
I noticed an interesting behaviour with a couple jars of my starters within the past week or so. About a week ago, I had started two new jars of starter because I had accidentally mis-weighed starter for a bread recipe and had to use all of it. Throughout the week, I had noticed that the starter never went through this "dormant" period people seem to encounter, but along with that, it seems to take on the flavour of the environment rather quickly, (todays flavour of the day? Mango!) and that after feedings it also gets quite warm. This was only observed because it's quite a cold day and my hands felt much warmer after holding the jars only briefly. Is this unusual?