Feedings / Days 4 and Beyond
| starter | flour | water | total | ||
| Feeding Ratio | Discard | 1 | 1 | 1 | Total |
| Day 1 / Feeding 1 | 50g | 50g | 100g | ||
| Day 2 / Feeding 2 | 100g | 100g | 100g | 300g | |
| Day 3 / Feeding 3 | 300g – 200g = | 100g | 100g | 100g | 300g |
| Day 4 / Feeding 4 | 300g – 200g = | 100g | 100g | 100g | 300g |
| Day 5 / Feeding 5 | 300g – 200g = | 100g | 100g | 100g | 300g |
| Day 6 / Feeding 6 | 300g – 200g = | 100g | 100g | 100g | 300g |
| Day 7 / Feeding 7 | 300g – 200g = | 100g | 100g | 100g | 300g |
Everyday, take 100g of your starter (discard the rest) and mix equal parts flour and water.
Each day, you are starting with 100g of sourdough starter
You feed that 100g of flour + 100g water
Wait for it to come to peak before you discard and feed it again.
You repeat this process until you’ve fed your starter a minimum of 7 feedings.
By the end of 7 feeding sessions, your starter is should be good to go.
It’s powerful enough to leaven a loaf of sourdough bread.
But only if the sourdough starter is rising and falling reliably and predictably by this point.
What if the sourdough starter stopped rising sometime between Days 3-7?
This will happen to some people and it’s what’s called the “dead phase” of making a sourdough starter.
The only recourse here is to “keep on keeping on” and continue feedings for 14 days.
You may even want to wait longer between feedings, perhaps 2 days instead of 1 so you can be sure you haven’t missed any activity.