Any ideas? Anyone? It started out smelling a little yeasty - which is probably normal. Then it started smelling a little beer-like which again makes sense and is probably normal. Today it smells a little like varnish...kind of like a very mild furniture varnish. What does this even mean? Is my dough-baby going to die? Are we all going to be sick if we eat varnishy bread?
I found a blog called
A Feast For the Seasons in which it talks about varnish smell. Actually they refer to it as a nail varnish remover smell which is not quite where mine is. According that blog "
If your starter smells like nail varnish remover, then lower the storage temperature and, again, feed for a few days more."
Really? I have to wait a few days more? But I'm a very impatient compulsive obsessive individual. When I want to do something I want to do it NOW! And I really wanted to get started on the bread-making process today. I'm all excited because I found this great video on
breadtopia.com about the
no-knead sourdough method. It takes 18 hours of rising and I wanted bread on Sunday. What to do...what to do....
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Is this what my starter is suppose to smell like? |
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Surely not THIS! |
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This is a lovely loaf indeed! Shouldn't my sourdough starter smell more like this? |
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