🫙✨ Day 3 of the 1:1:1 method and we have officially entered the sourdough multiverse. ✨🫙
Dough-nald Trump will be making bread great again before we know it! 😂
If you’re watching my starter and thinking:
“Ma’am… that jar looks like it belongs in a Marvel movie”
First of all: you’re correct.
Second of all: WELCOME TO THE MULTIVERSE. 😂
We are officially in the Venom stage.
It smells questionable.
It looks… alive.
It’s not dry. It’s not runny. It’s giving symbiote energy.
And before anyone panics in my comments about:
👉 “You’re underfeeding it”
👉 “You need to weigh it in grams”
👉 “You have to discard half”
👉 “My cousin’s neighbor’s baker said—”
Let me explain in normal human language:
Right now this jar is a bacterial battle royale.
The stink = bad bacteria dying.
The gross = good yeast moving in.
That’s why days 3–5 are:
Funky
Ugly
Concerning
Emotionally challenging 😭
And that is EXACTLY what it’s supposed to do.
We are doing a tiny, no-waste starter, so yes — we’re feeding:
🥄 1 tbsp flour
🥄 1 tbsp water
Because we’re not feeding a horse.
We’re growing a culture.
You don’t need a scale.
You don’t need to throw half away.
You don’t need to summon the sourdough elders.
You just need:
✔️ Thick pancake batter consistency
✔️ Patience
✔️ Emotional strength for the smell
In a day or two it might look “dead”.
It’s not. It’s just evolving into its final form. 😈🍞
Trust the process.
Trust the jar.
Trust the multiverse.
More updates soon before it crawls out and asks for a social security number.