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Sourdough 2.0 and 3.0
11th and 12th feedings, May 10 and 11
Much the same: no activity indicating yeast, sour-bad smells. I have now concluded that I have two carefully nurtured bacterial colonies. I shall report that to the project in 2 days, after the 14th feeding, then I shall toss them.
But what would cause them to fail? After some more research, I found out that our city’s water systems doesn’t use chlorine, but chloramine to treat the water. That’s a combo of chlorine and ammonia and, more importantly, it does not outgas from water if you let it sit overnight.
We have a whole-house water filter that the builders installed, and we somewhat recently had it serviced, so it should be working. I am not sure exactly which filter it is and the company’s website says that some filter out chloramine, and others don’t.
So I started two more, using the Serious Eats method (link in a prior entry), one with tap water straight from the tap, and one with bottled water, which should technically tell me if the water is the problem. If those both fail, I’ll get some different bottled water and try using a starter with some yeast put in it. I want to know why they all fail!
So SE#1, started last night, smelled like flour and a little bit of sourness today. It also had either a lot of hooch on top, or it had separated, so I went ahead and fed it. SE#2, started this morning when I realized I could try the bottled water, smelled like flour and water. I went ahead and fed it anyway, just to get them both on the same schedule.
SCIENCE! Of a sort.
Much the same: no activity indicating yeast, sour-bad smells. I have now concluded that I have two carefully nurtured bacterial colonies. I shall report that to the project in 2 days, after the 14th feeding, then I shall toss them.
But what would cause them to fail? After some more research, I found out that our city’s water systems doesn’t use chlorine, but chloramine to treat the water. That’s a combo of chlorine and ammonia and, more importantly, it does not outgas from water if you let it sit overnight.
We have a whole-house water filter that the builders installed, and we somewhat recently had it serviced, so it should be working. I am not sure exactly which filter it is and the company’s website says that some filter out chloramine, and others don’t.
So I started two more, using the Serious Eats method (link in a prior entry), one with tap water straight from the tap, and one with bottled water, which should technically tell me if the water is the problem. If those both fail, I’ll get some different bottled water and try using a starter with some yeast put in it. I want to know why they all fail!
So SE#1, started last night, smelled like flour and a little bit of sourness today. It also had either a lot of hooch on top, or it had separated, so I went ahead and fed it. SE#2, started this morning when I realized I could try the bottled water, smelled like flour and water. I went ahead and fed it anyway, just to get them both on the same schedule.
SCIENCE! Of a sort.