How To Make A Sourdough Starter From Scratch •  Tasty

hey guys it's Katie and today is a brand new day and I thought it would be really fun if I made my own starter for sourdough bread from scratch let's call my friend Marissa who makes bread for a living and she's gonna help us figure this out let's

do it Hey hello how are you I'm great first question what is a starter so a starter is just a mixture of flour and water and it's what you're eventually going to use 211 your sourdough breads I use a mix of hundred grams of form water 50 grams

whole wheat flour 50 grams bread flour I'm gonna mix it up and cover it with a lid then I put a rubber band around the outside to mark movement you're looking for consistent rise and fall of the starter let's walk through like what that first week is like

we're gonna check in on the starter I'm gonna take a look at it and I'm gonna see if there are any signs of fermentation I'm looking for a sweet funky smell see if there are any air bubbles and if we're seeing those bubbles we know it's time to

give it feeding if you still don't see those signs you can wait another day the feeding is when we discard a lot of the starter from the container and we feed it fresh water and flour and that allows the colony of yeast to grow within new flour and

water keep doing this process daily for about a week impossible that it could take a little longer though depending on your environment this was super helpful Marissa I'm gonna get to it get in it awesome I'm excited and check in with me during the week okay things that

up I will check in with you I am you know I'll need to bye okay after talking with Marissa I'm gonna start my starter first I have a scale this is just gonna help you measure a lot of bread recipes are in as you can see grams or

ounces a scale is awesome to have I've got a clear container that I'm gonna put it in tare this so this goes to zero and then I have some wheat flour and I have some bread flour and some water [Music] I'm gonna set this on my kitchen counter

because it's pretty warm in my kitchen day one and done see you tomorrow it looks like it rose like up just a tiny bit hmm you guys can see those bubbles that are going on there so definitely have some life it has a little bit of sweetness I

definitely think like Marissa said we should wait another day and check on it and we'll see you tomorrow yeah I just out of the shower and I saw my starter and I'm pretty excited take a look at it wow it's so alive it was pretty warm cuz I

shot in my kitchen yesterday so I think that really helped looking fine boy woah all the bubbles those this is going strong Marissa said we need to discard almost all of it we're gonna keep two tablespoons and I'm gonna give that a hundred grams of water and a

hundred grams of flour and then with the discard you don't have to throw it away you can cap it put it in the fridge I'm going to use it for pancakes tomorrow morning ah day three done okay it's another morning and my starter has risen again not quite

as fluffy but it looks like it came up you can see that line right there and they're gonna shrunk back down and there is a lot more bubbles oh definitely more sour smelling today still sweet it's got more sour in there so I'm gonna discard all of this

except two tablespoons again I'm gonna add 100 grams of warm water 100 grams of flour and I'm gonna make pancakes with this discard and my discard from yesterday whew [Music] how'd you get it more round Chris it's filming my husband hello hey oh yeah all right Chris no

I'm really good yeah what are you worried good for you no no really good there might be more of like um about whole-wheat pancakes they're kind of more like that it's really good I think they're great it's going I'm checking in because it's day five and I'm just

not getting like a lot of movement on my starboard and I don't know if it's because it's so cold in my house right now yeah I think like you could wait for a little bit more bubbles on the top no signs of you talked about and then feed

it it will start to level out it's still really new and young and like learning the process okay great all right well I'll just keep I'll keep going I'll keep observing it okay all right okay so it's day seven five and six I just left this guy alone

Marissa said if it's not really writing that much let it sit and do its thing before you feed it but now today on the seventh day it has a lot more action going on so I'm gonna discard most of it especially because I let it sit for two

days and then I'm gonna feed it again a hundred grams of water and a hundred grams of flour and then I think that we're gonna have starter that I can make bread with like tomorrow hey everyone I know I said I'd be checking in with Marissa tomorrow but

I just I had to show her my starter today because it basically doubled in size awesome just so you know like day five and a six like not much was happening there wasn't many bubbles on top today I had all these funky bubbles when I opened it up

then I fed it I mean to me that sounds like you're being intuitive like we can say feed every day but those first few days like if you want to let it go a little longer to see a little more of those signs of funkiness before feeding sounds

like you did the right thing cuz look at it now right as long as you don't see any like black mold if it's like a sludgy Brown black layer that's called hooch and you can like pour that out but if it's fuzzy at all black mold flu unfortunately

you might have to start over it but it this is looking great let's just try the float chest get a cool cup of water and its food okay I'll be right back for the float test you're gonna take a clean scoop of the starter and then you're gonna

put it into the water and when I say clean scoop it's just what you did we're we're trying not to like stir it up because you want to see those bubbles oh it's so floating Marissa oh my gosh oh my gosh I wish I could go sir oh

it's just kind of fun to do but I don't waste my starter what should we name this baby you the name Priscilla came into my house Priscilla I love Priscilla this been definitely Priscilla do you think she'll be ready to like mix and make a loaf like in

a couple days yeah I think we should give it a shot let's say after you make that bread you know you're not gonna bake for a few weeks what I would do next is feed your starter and then put it in the refrigerator you can keep it there

indefinitely just feed it once a week do a refresh so final question if people watching wanna make bread when should they feed their starter if you want to mix your bread in the morning you could feed it right before going to bed about eight hours if you want

to make dough in evenings you could feed in the morning about any hour you doesn't need to make sure it passes the flow test where I said this was so helpful thank you so much I'm so proud of myself and Priscilla I hope you guys tried this at

home if I can do it you definitely can do it and if you guys have any more baking questions hit Marissa up at Baker Bowie on Instagram and check out our bread making video when that comes out and make a loaf with us peace and hello peace and

looks all right I'll see you later [Music] oh yes [Music] you