A good fermentation requires a very active and healthy sourdough starter in the first place. Unlike commercial yeast which you can purchase from the store, sourdough starter has to be cultivated (or get from someone) and maintained by feeding it regularly. #Sourdough #Starter Creating a healthy sourdough starter from scratch can take anywhere from 5 days to 2 weeks. This is when different colonies of bacteria found in flour fight for their survival until the acid producing bacteria makes the environment not suitable for other microbes to survive.

The #CoVid19 #Lockdown situation has created lot of home bakers. The interest towards #Sourdough bread has surged in the last month. Having baked sourdough bread for close to 7 months, I will share some most common mistakes new home bakers do The first mistake is the sourdough starter not being very active & healthy. Every new baker who starts from scratch will almost certainly misjudge early activity as a sign of starter ready to bake bread. With regular feeding, it might take two weeks to get a healthy starter.