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Day 4 Sourdough Starter

🧪 Day 4 of the 1:1:1 No-Discard Starter Experiment (aka Dough-nald Trump’s Symbiote Era)

Today’s update is actually kinda exciting 👀

When I opened the jar this morning, it smelled sweet / slightly fruity, not sour, not gross — which is a GREAT sign. I also saw lots of tiny bubbles all throughout, even though last night was the coldest night ever in my house, so everything definitely slowed down a bit.

Before feeding, the texture was:

Stretchy, slimey, very Venom-coded 😅

If I flipped the jar over it would run out — but that is NORMAL at this stage, especially doing no-discard and small daily feeds.

For Day 4 feeding, we stayed consistent with the method:

🥄 Added:

1 tbsp flour

1 tbsp water

(straight into the jar — NO DISCARD METHOD)

Mixed it up really well, scraped the sides, and right after mixing I could already see new bubbles forming before I even put the lid on 👀🔥

That tells me:

✅ It’s alive

✅ The microbes are active

✅ The culture is building

Right now the starter is still:

Thin

A little gooey

Very “science experiment” looking

And that’s exactly what early starters do. This stage is more about building the bacterial and yeast population than getting big rises.

💡 Important note:

Adding more flour right now does NOT make it go faster. It actually slows things down because you dilute the microbes. The biggest helper right now is warmth + consistency.

So the plan stays:

✔️ No discard

✔️ 1 tbsp flour + 1 tbsp water per day

✔️ Same time every day

✔️ Keep it somewhere not freezing

Dough-nald Trump is officially in his training arc. Not ready to bake with yet… but he is definitely alive and plotting.

More updates tomorrow 😏🍞

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