{"id":20366,"date":"2021-01-02T16:52:56","date_gmt":"2021-01-02T22:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=20366"},"modified":"2021-02-16T23:33:37","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T05:33:37","slug":"i-do-sourdough-all-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2021\/20210102-20366.htm","title":{"rendered":"I Do Sourdough All Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A little over a year and a half ago, I bought <a href=\"http:\/\/<a href=&quot;https:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00ODHRCDY\/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1&quot;&gt;\">a dehydrated sourdough starter<\/a> off the internet. Since then, I&#8217;ve been consistently making sourdough all wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210102_162523780-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210102_162523780-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Dough straight out of the breadmaker (pictured in background)\" class=\"wp-image-20369\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210102_162523780-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210102_162523780-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210102_162523780-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210102_162523780-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210102_162523780-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>I keep my starter in the fridge rather than on the counter<\/li><li>I only feed my starter when I&#8217;m getting ready to make a new loaf of bread (whether it&#8217;s been a day or a month since I last fed it)<\/li><li>I don&#8217;t measure my starter when I&#8217;m feeding it &#8211; I just scrape the whole thing into a bowl and feed it (whether it&#8217;s 4 oz of starter or 12 oz)<\/li><li>I don&#8217;t pre-ferment or fold and stretch my dough &#8211; I just chuck it in the breadmaker on the dough cycle and let it do its thing<\/li><li>I don&#8217;t use recipes specifically designed for sourdough &#8211; I just calculate how much extra flour I need to convert my tried and true bread recipes to sourdough<\/li><li>I don&#8217;t form boules or any other fancy-shaped loaves &#8211; I just stick my dough in a standard loaf pan and bake it like that<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210102_162614573-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210102_162614573-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"A half eaten loaf of faux-buttermilk bread and a full loaf of half-whole-wheat sourdough bread waiting to be eaten\" class=\"wp-image-20370\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210102_162614573-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210102_162614573-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210102_162614573-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210102_162614573-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210102_162614573-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2021, I&#8217;m planning to try some traditional sourdough, just for fun. But if it ceases to be fun? I can always go right back on doing what I&#8217;m doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And if you&#8217;ve been thinking about trying sourdough but are intimidated by all the fancy instructions, replete with NEVERs and MUSTs? Take a deep breath and dive in anyway &#8211; sourdough done all wrong still tastes pretty good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little over a year and a half ago, I bought a dehydrated sourdough starter off the internet. Since then, I&#8217;ve been consistently making sourdough all wrong. I keep my starter in the fridge rather than on the counter I only feed my starter when I&#8217;m getting ready to make a new loaf of bread &#8230; <a title=\"I Do Sourdough All Wrong\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2021\/20210102-20366.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I Do Sourdough All Wrong<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12],"tags":[134,1663],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20366"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20366"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20374,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20366\/revisions\/20374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}