After letting this thought play in my mind for weeks, today shall be the day! I know it sounds silly. “It’s just flour and water”, but I do get this nervous / kan-cheong feeling whenever I’m about to do something new and it’s not exactly pleasant.
So I started at 8.30AM. Almost like some sifu choosing auspicious timing for some important occasion. But it was nothing like that. I just need to choose a time that 12 hours later I’ll still be awake and free to feed my starter.
At 8.30AM, I weigh out 20g wholemeal flour and 20g filtered water into the jar. Wholemeal cause I read somewhere that it’s easier for yeast to grow with wholemeal flour. And filtered water is important because there is no chlorine or anything harmful that might kill the yeast. Gave it a good stir till everything is well mixed and there is no dry bits of flour, scraped down the sides with the spatula, clean the inside of the jar (optional), and put on a rubber band to mark the starting point.
I don’t like mess, and so I clean the inside of the jar. First, cause I don’t like seeing white marks at the side from stirring which will probably dry up and form some kind of crust later on. Second, it’s easier to see if there is anything happening inside the jar. Plus, it looks better in picture. A damp cloth / kitchen tower will easily do the job. Well, the cloth is a more environmentally friendly option.
As expected, nothing much happened. 8.30PM, it still looks pretty much the same. I gave it a good stir, wish BoBO goodnight and went to bed. But in my mind, I was starting to doubt if this will actually work.
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