Sourdough starter help please!
I've been following thekitchn's sourdough starter recipe - 4 oz ap flour + 4 oz water daily for 4 days, and should be ready to use on day 5. Day 2 it smelt like vomit, but I forged ahead, and day 3 it smelt like nail varnish, so I thought I was getting somewhere. Day 4 it had a layer of water on top, not sure if it was hooch, but I drained it off and added more flour and slightly less water. Day 5, it started to smell like parmesan, so day 6, I dumped half out and added the same 4 oz flour and 4 oz water, but today it still smells like parmesan, very few bubbles, hardly any rise, compared to the lovely frothy bubbling I had on days 2 and 3. I live in a pretty hot and humid climate, we usually average about 32C. I keep it in a porcelain mixing bowl with some clingwrap and a tea towel over the top. I just stirred it and it smelt like yoghurt, and tasted like it too. I'm not really sure where to go from here, do I just leave it, or keep feeding it, or should I start over?