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Hi, my name is Sune, and I am a food geek.
I aim to teach you how to make delicious foods and bread in easy and understandable steps.
I live in Copenhagen, Denmark, in Northern Europe.
I love everything food: world food, baking, slicing, dicing, kitchen gadgets, techniques, and chemistry. I love figuring out how things work and getting the most flavor and beauty out of every ingredient.
Join me in my quest for deliciousness.
I aim to teach you how to make delicious foods and bread in easy and understandable steps.
I live in Copenhagen, Denmark, in Northern Europe.
I love everything food: world food, baking, slicing, dicing, kitchen gadgets, techniques, and chemistry. I love figuring out how things work and getting the most flavor and beauty out of every ingredient.
Join me in my quest for deliciousness.
Baking with a two and a half year hibernating starter? | Foodgeek
In this exciting baking experiment, discover if a sourdough starter that’s been hibernating in the fridge for 2.5 years can still make delicious bread! Watch as I revive the dormant starter and bake three loaves at different stages of activity, sharing tips and insights along the way. Join me on this fascinating journey to see if time in the fridge has preserved the magic of sourdough. Don’t miss out on this unique baking challenge that combines science and culinary art.
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⭐️ Tools for your starter
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⭐️ Proofing baskets to help your bread stay in shape
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⭐️ Knives for cutting your bread
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⭐️ Avoid getting burned while baking
Heat-resistant gloves: fdgk.net/buy-heat-resistant-gloves
⭐️ Make awesome sandwich bread in these pans
Pullman Loaf Pan (small): fdgk.net/buy-small-pullman-loaf-pan
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I chatted with Helen Rennie about ovens and how they differ between Europe and the States. Lots of useful information that will help you get success with all the recipes you find online. 🎥 Helen's video - ua-cam.com/video/zXV5HJzwnCs/v-deo.html 👉 Buy Foodgeek Merch: fdgk.net/buy-merch 👉 Patreon: fdgk.net/patreon 👉 Like what I do? Buy me a coffee: fdgk.net/buy-me-a-coffee ⭐️ Follow me: Instagram...
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Hey. Tried your recipie - made great bread. Thanks Q: when i use baker %. The flour is allways 100%. How much water and flour does the starter count for ??? How does it count towards the total % of hydration ??
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Amazing video thanks ❤!!
A bit of labeling as you go along would be nice, I got them mixed up as they look the same- until the last cutting and showing the insides together to camera.
Does the beer take away the nutritional benefits of the sourdough, like instant yeast does when making a hybrid?
I did find that for the batard, if the dough is high hydration and I do a center cut, the final product is more spread out and flat. I ended up doing the classic French cut (3 cross cuts), which helps retain the shape a bit better. Thank you for the videos and examples of the different cuts
Just found your video - very good. I follow the tartine recipe but will try yours. Question, if I may. I have trouble slicing. I noticed your taste piece was sliced rather thin. Did you use the knife you have listed? How long after baking did you wait to make that slice? Thanks much.
In my country, where the room temperature is over 86F in summer, there is a method that adds 0.01% of salt to "save" the weak starter. I just tried, and it works. Before adding salt it smells acidic and only bubbles. After adding salt, it finally rises.
As always another awesome video!
in the fridge uncovered?
How do you make your Well Fed Starter?
Coincidentally I just resurrected an 2 year hibernating starter from the fridge 3 weeks ago and since it's third feed it's running great, stronger than ever.
I did this experiment a while ago by mistake. I have never produced such a flat pancake as I did then. 🤣
The first bread, you didn't let it ferment enough. I use old starter out of the fridge all the time. Takes way longer to ferment, e.g. after a year it took a day and a half and i had to give some extra strength towards the end. But the loaf looked more like your 5 day revive
Very Interesting Sir! Many Thanks!
Sune... Welcome back.. I have really missed your vidoes. And your guitar collection.. I agree with you that there is a lot of mythology about starters and the need to keep an active (energetic?) starter by feeding daily. I have just been on an extended trip to Europe. I had left my starter in the hands of a neighbour to feed and refresh on a weekly basis. I also kept a small amount in the fridge which was unattended for about 4 weeks. On my return I refreshed both the managed and neglected pots on my first evening back. I baked with them both the following morning and there was no discernible difference in the results. They both worked well. This was a rye and white flour starter that I first developed about 10 years ago. As you have said it was ready to bake with after about 5 days after I first started the feeding process. Cheers Paul... Keep up the vids..
Great technique. I have an ANOVA steam oven with baking steel. It's difficult to get a good ear. The convection fan is always on during steam and maximum bottom heat is 356F. I've gotten better results presteaming with bottom and rear heat 482F. Loading bread. Turning off oven. Later turning back on.
I’m not surprised, but I am cheered!
Good to have you back, Sune. My longest forgotten starter was nine months. Poured the hooch off, fed three days daily and one day twice. Next day a perfect bake. All the best for the new job!
I don't buy making a fresh starter in 4 or 5 days. Not from just flour and water.
Never the less. It happened. My second video on UA-cam: SOURDOUGH STARTER from scratch - RECIPE for success! ua-cam.com/video/ZU2z8u7MErI/v-deo.html
@@Foodgeek everything I've ever seen says it takes weeks. There may be an initial false rise from bacterial activity, but it takes weeks to concentrate the yeast and bacteria you want. My personal experience is it takes 4-5 weeks to get a strong, active starter. Perhaps you could do that initial starter creation. But monitor it for 4-5 weeks and see how it develops overtime.
@TEDodd The following recipe was baked using that starter. I promise you it was ready 😊
@@Foodgeek so why does everyone else say it takes weeks? Why so many cases of young starters (2-3 weeks old) being problematic? And after contunuingbto feed for a few more weeks clears up those problems? My own experiences agree that 2-3 weeks isn't long enough to reliably double in 4 hrs after 1:1:1 feeding. Even reactivating a dried starter takes more than a week. Maybe you got lucky? That's why I'd like to see a controlled experiment. See if you can recreate your earlier result. See how it changes over the course of 5 weeks. Same feeding schedule and record time to double.
@@TEDodd He's starting from an existing starter (albeit, a very inactive one) vs plain flour and water. Most 'from scratch' starters that are made from plain flour and water with nothing else takes time to build up in strength, hence the many weeks you've seen in other blogs, etc. His method of revival is very similar to other methods of having backup starter. One method of having backup starter is to dry it flat, break them apart and place them into jars on the shelf or zip top bags in the freezer. This dried up starter can be crumbled up and mixed in with a similar ratio of 1:3:3. One would have more success reviving it within a week rather than starting from scratch. Personally, I have done this a few times with great success and it takes 4-5 days for the starter to reach it's peak once again.
I smear my starter in a thin coat over a ball that’s been pulled a few times, then poke it with a chopstick all over a bunch of times. After a half hour I’ll pull and mix. A couple more times and a good rest to ferment. Never fails.
I am also interested in the starter ratios. Do you have another video that explains this? Thank you for your very helpful, informative videos.
Watch this video: ua-cam.com/video/zjqqkfdYMq8/v-deo.html 😁
If you have a question about sourdough, Sune has already answered it!
Hi geek thak you for your wonderful videos i have a question , my starter is yong and when i want to make bread my dough takes about 12h to grow up what can i do to make my starter strong ? 🙏🏼
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I brought my very old starter to my daughters house in Salt Lake City, fed it once and then used it - it was amazing. Sourdough is always very successful there - I think it may be the altitude. Now, that would be an interesting experiment.
My sourdough starter set for 6 months in the refrigerator I only bake in the winter pull it out feed it and I have fabulous sourdough all winter long. So many people think they kill their starter when they really don't what do you think they did back in the days they didn't discard and waste stuff.
I do the same because we don't have air con and I don't even want to think of turning the oven up to 500F (260C) when it's 90F (32C). It's usually sluggish at first like Sune's was, but gets going soon enough.
To use a very old starter successfully straight from the fridge, to be fair, after stirring in the hooch, mix up your sourdough as usual, but let it bulk raise much longer, even two plus days until it has truly doubled in size. It just takes longer! The same after forming the loaf. Let rise as long as it takes to double. Then score and bake as usual. The results could amaze you in oven spring and flavor. However I haven’t seen it done with quite so aged of a starter. Maybe up to 12 months or so.
I don't bake bread in the summer much. So by fall my starter is a few months old. I feed it twice and its ready to go. For those that say, isn't it easier to just start a new one? For me....a friend gave me the original starter. She has since passed away. I feel its still 'her' starter and I just cannot discard it.
The egg & avocado are my favorite 😍
Is there a danger of botulism or other pathogens? My starter jar gets moldy if I leave it in one container too long.
Does it get moldy in the fridge, container sealed? That seems unlikely. If there is a fine layer of black-ish liquid stuff, that's not mold and it's part of the starter, it shouldn't be thrown away, just mixed in again.
Hope you are doing well. Thank you for doing the experiment I always wondered about. I often leave my starter in the fridge for 6 to 8 weeks and I usually need just a good feeding (1:5:5) and 12+ hours to get it ready to use for baking. Of course I get better bread results after 2 feedings.
I find this very comforting. I’m traveling a lot this next two years and hate to ask others to hassle with my starter. I loved seeing the great rise in the 1:50:50 feeding. Good stuff, Sune! I love your videos.
soon ppl will try to patent the ability to breath
I don't bake as much nowadays, so I keep my starter in the fridge sometimes up to 2-3 months. Turn the hooch out, feed and use next day. (I don't care for the gray color, so I do toss it.) If it doesn't rise correctly, then I feed for an extra day and bake with it. I've been doing this a couple of years with this starter. I have also stored some in the freezer for a longer tiime, maybe a year or so, feed it a few times and it's good to go. I have made different starters through the years. Back in the late 70's, a milk and yogurt starter. In the early 2000's, a wheat one, a rye one, and one with all-purpose flours all with water. Mostly now I use just water and bread flour, if it is not up to par, I put in about a teaspoon of rye flour and it's very active again. I am no expert by any means, just enjoy baking and feel like I am the lab making my concoctions. 😂
The hooch is very much part of the starter and NEVER thrown out! Stir it well into your starter to maintain correct hydration.
I've had similar experiences with "old" starter left for months in the fridge. But, as you pointed out, it only takes 4 or 5 days to make a fresh batch of starter anyway. So why bother recharging a very old starter when you can just as easily make a new one from scratch? Sentimentality? Probably, since Chad Robertson has proven that there isn't any real difference between an old starter and a brand new one--he once ran completely out of his long-time starter at Tartine and they didn't miss a beat, creating a new starter instantly from the ambient yeast in their kitchen and they continued just as before--same bread the very next day. As always, an interesting experiment. Wondering if you can completely dispense with the stretch and folds as long as the final rise is overnight for at least 12 hours? Gluten will develop anyway, right?
I left mine 8 weeks when I was travelling, fed it twice and it was good to go. I've frozen some starter, don't know how that will work out when I try it.
I resurrected mine after 9-12 months without feeding. I thought it was dead when it didn’t hardly move in 24 hours at room temp, but I immediately re-fed it and in another 24 hours it was very active. Still going strong. Thx for the video.
Could you explain why you used such widely divergent starter, flour, water ratios when building the starters? I'm kinda stuck in the 2:1:2 ratio with good results, but not sure how to experiment with different starter ratios. Did you do already do a video showing results of different starters?
2:1:2 as in 50g starter/25g flour/50g water? Very liquid starter 😊
When you use a large starter to food ratio, the yeast/bacteria can feed longer and goes through more generations of multiplying. The starter has more time to recover.
If it took four days to get a starter from scratch, and five days using the old starter, wouldn't it be more a case of inhibiting the yeast in the fresh flour, rather than reviving any yeast that may have been in the old starter?
My starter’s 3 1/2 months old🥳
I resurrected my mom's 40 year old starters after 7 years of non-use, non feeding. Took a couple weeks to get it nice and healthy, but is growing great now!
I'm not trying to step on your happiness but how are you even sure you resurrected it, it only takes a week to start a fresh one from scratch
@@bullerfuglI'v never seen a new starter ready in a week. Activity sure, but it's not balanced with the right yeast and bacteria yet.
@@TEDodd "Took A COUPLE (of) WEEKS to get it nice and healthy, but is growing great now!"
@@space.youtube the person I replied to, bullerfugl, said it only takes a week to make a fresh starter.
@@TEDodd Yep, my mistake. Sorry.
I go south for a few months in the winter and leave my starter in the fridge. When I return home, I pour off the liquid, which I believe is mostly alcohol, and feed my starter for a day. After that it works fine. I don't understand why it wouldn't; starter can be dehydrated and still work.
What a great experiment! Thank you for sharing with us. I value nostalgia as well :)
My starter is still the first one I made back in 2018 🥺
What was the smell once you opened it?
Sour, but not unbearably so 😊
@Foodgeek I see. Great looking bread after 5 days. Thanks for sharing
@andreapin9233 It was definitely active again 😊
Born in 1954, all the kids in the neighborhood grew up on wonderbread. The wonderbread you buy today tastes nothing like it did back in the 50's, 60's and 70's.
is your shirt perhaps an Art of kickz product?
Thanks!