The day my sourdough starter finally clicked after a rainy weekend

I left my starter, 'Bubbles', on the counter during a really damp weekend in Portland. I usually keep it in the pantry, but I forgot. When I went to feed it Monday morning, it had this amazing, fruity smell and doubled in size in just 4 hours, which it never does that fast. I baked a loaf with it and got the best oven spring I've ever seen. Has anyone else noticed their starter acts totally different with big weather changes?

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kaiharris2d ago

Are you sure it was the weather and not just a lucky fluke? My starter does weird stuff all the time for no clear reason. Last week it was super active on a dry day, this week it's slow on a humid one. It seems more random than anything. You probably just got the feeding ratio perfect by accident that time. People always want to find a pattern where there isn't one.

jesse_burns82d ago

Man you might be onto something. My starter went crazy during a heat wave last month, so I blamed the temp. But then it did the same thing on a cool day when I used a different brand of flour. Maybe we're all just trying to make sense of a jar of chaos. It's like a pet that has good and bad days for its own weird reasons.