...apparently I am not allowed to discard my sourdough starter?

[cathyw]

Husband literally yelled at me when I took it out to the compost. Said he'd use it for something if I didn't want to keep it up. So it's back in the fridge.

a month from now when it has gone off from not being fed it will be compost time anyways, so.

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[lunarriviera]

idk mine survived months at a time, dormant in the fridge, and then would speedily revive upon warmth/flour? so there may be life in the old girl yet.

[cathyw]

King Arthur actually suggests drying it. I might investigate that.

[lunarriviera]

oh wow—i believe them! what king arthur doesn't know about sourdough doesn't exist. let us know if you try it/how it goes?

[cathyw]

have now turned this into a science project: every year on his birthday, I should dry a sample, and then when he turns 10, I rehydrate all of them and have a baking frenzy to see if there are differences in flavor between the loaves.

my palate is probably not sufficient for that though.

[lunarriviera]

it's like that roman sourdough starter the archaeologists found and revived? i can't find that article but here is another one about very old starters—

[cathyw]

Ooh. I hadn't heard about a Roman one but I knew about Seamus Blackley trying to culture yeasts from ancient Egyptian pottery!