{"id":145226,"date":"2025-03-20T07:17:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T07:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/recipes\/category-a-b\/bread\/dont-buy-sourdough-starter-baltic-bakehouse\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T07:17:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T07:17:16","slug":"dont-buy-sourdough-starter-baltic-bakehouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=145226","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Buy Sourdough Starter \u2014 Baltic Bakehouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/5a969ffd96d45588d2b8ea03\/1520536374785-R5SP87G2ZWUOEWBXAEHF\/Baltic-Bakehouse-1230982-pete-carr.jpg?format=1500w\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Its been some time since I last wrote anything, sorry about that I\u2019ll try harder I promise.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, please don\u2019t buy sourdough starter or culture, or mother or what ever people want to call it. You can have ours for free if you ask nicely, we\u2019ll give it to you in a takeaway coffee cup.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What I\u2019m getting at, is the bakeries and websites that sell starter for prices like \u00a35, \u00a315 or \u00a320. Usually with a list of reasons why you should, that may or may not include.\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It\u2019s from France\/Spain\/German\/San Fran\/Skegness so it will taste like bread from there.<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s really old like 6\/35\/164\/8523 years old and therefore better.<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s been past down from father to son since the beginning of time.<\/li>\n<li>It has a distinctive and individual flavour and aroma.<\/li>\n<li>It cost the baker pennies and thus is an easy way to make money.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Location isn\u2019t important, getting a French starter will not help you make french bread, your starter changes over time depending on the flour it is fed, the schedule of the feeding and where it is fed. So any starter you pay money for will adapt and change to where you are and what you do to it. If I got any other starter from any other part of the world and used it in my standard process I doubt there would be much different to the bread.<\/p>\n<p>Age isn\u2019t important, a starter that is 200 years old is no better than one that is a month old. Ok, you may need a couple of weeks to get a starter established and settled down if you\u2019re starting from scratch, but that\u2019s it. The idea that a starter with greater age has more flavour or some other beneficial property are false.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Too many myths about starters and sourdough in general allow people to make these claims, which generally aren\u2019t true. It also allows people to try and sell starters for huge prices purely in the name of making money, which just isn\u2019t fair. If you want people to engage with bread making it\u2019s not right to sell them something to help that process at a 100 times mark up based on incorrect information.<\/p>\n<p>Do not buy sourdough starter, find a baker that will give it away or make your own, its actually quite easy, I recommend the book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Flour-Water-Salt-Yeast-Fundamentals\/dp\/160774273X\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1453821725&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=ken+forkish\">Flour, Water, Salt and Yeast by Ken Forkish<\/a>, it\u2019s great and will tell you everything you need to know. Spend money on a good book not on mumbo jumbo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its been some time since I last wrote anything, sorry about that I\u2019ll try harder I promise.\u00a0 Anyway, please don\u2019t buy sourdough starter or culture, or mother or what ever people want to call it. 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