ISO: Sourdough Bread Starter Problem
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In my efforts to get a really pungent sourdough bread, I have started a new sourdough bread starter with plain, active-culture yogurt; sharp cheddar cheese for flavor; skimmed milk; whole-wheat flour; and have allowed the starter to sit outside in the forest for yeast introduction . . . Everything seems to be crusing along nicely in the usual manner and I am getting some great odors from the starter, but the hooch has a black or dark-gray tint. Research of numeous receipes, etc., has resulted in no mention of this phenomenon. Pink coloring indicates a disintegration of the milk, but I have no pink tint at all . . . just black.
Any experience or advice from out there? If I proceed and bake the bread, it certainly shouldn't kill my wife and me, because the life of all the flora/fauna in the bread will be terminated in the baking process . . . maybe just proceeding and testing the baked bread is the way to go, except none of us are intersted in dying!
Thanks for any help and advice!
In my efforts to get a really pungent sourdough bread, I have started a new sourdough bread starter with plain, active-culture yogurt; sharp cheddar cheese for flavor; skimmed milk; whole-wheat flour; and have allowed the starter to sit outside in the forest for yeast introduction . . . Everything seems to be crusing along nicely in the usual manner and I am getting some great odors from the starter, but the hooch has a black or dark-gray tint. Research of numeous receipes, etc., has resulted in no mention of this phenomenon. Pink coloring indicates a disintegration of the milk, but I have no pink tint at all . . . just black.
Any experience or advice from out there? If I proceed and bake the bread, it certainly shouldn't kill my wife and me, because the life of all the flora/fauna in the bread will be terminated in the baking process . . . maybe just proceeding and testing the baked bread is the way to go, except none of us are intersted in dying!
Thanks for any help and advice!
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