Comments on: Start Your Starters!

By: Pull Apart Cheesy Herb Bread | NerdyBaker

Pull Apart Cheesy Herb Bread | NerdyBaker — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 19:51:38 +0000

[...] well I will share the whole process, but if you cannot wait please check out where I learned on Joy the Baker. Rolled out ball with herbs and [...]

By: Marci

Marci — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 06:43:09 +0000

Your link to Sourdough Baking: The Basics by S. John Ross no longer takes one to the sourdough page.
You may want to consider changing your link to take people to http://www222.pair.com/sjohn/blueroom/sour.htm.
Thanks for all your awesome recipes! Yummy.

By: Lena Goodwin

Lena Goodwin — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:29:12 +0000

Hi Joy,

I have two starters going. The one that is a day older, separated just like your pictures, but smells like (yuch old vomit) is this correct? Also, what no sourdough bread recipe? Ack. I literally live your your blog recipes and am jonesing for a good bread recipe.

You are amazing.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 22:06:10 +0000

I have been looking all over the web for pictures of a sourdough starter in process! You are my new hero! I’m currently living where sourdough bread does not exist and I’ve tried several starters not knowing if they were actually successful or not…eventually they smelled so bad my husband made me throw them away :)

Can’t wait to try again!

By: maybe i should quit reading food blogs. « fixation for life

maybe i should quit reading food blogs. « fixation for life — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 14:55:04 +0000

[...] or explain but I know I could satisfy that banana bread want. I’ve begun to think I need a sourdough starter to keep as a pet, and maybe for sourdough pancakes or english muffins. I want to boil whole wheat [...]

By: Joy the Baker » Blog Archive » Sourdough Pancakes Part One

Joy the Baker » Blog Archive » Sourdough Pancakes Part One — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:35:35 +0000

[...] Sourdough Starter: the beginning [...]

By: richard

richard — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 21:53:05 +0000

Just tried my first sourdough starter and failed miserably. The starter was rising like a phoenix for the first few days, was beginning to have a nice yeasty smell, and then after a feeding the whole thing died. I can’t seem to revive it. I tried making a loaf of bread to see what would happen, couldn’t get it to bubble in the proofing phase, and would not rise. Ended up like a brick. Any suggestions?

By: Marti

Marti — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 03:57:19 +0000

Well this is a late response to your post on sourdough but I thought I would say “Thanks”. I have summer off this year (every three years need it or not) and have devoted myself to becoming a kitchen goddess. One sub-goal has been to try new bread recipes, and in the process I have discovered many bread blogs. however you move into the arcane realms of sourdough and levels of saturation and seed vs sourdough vs barm and NOBODY puts up recipes (unless they are formulae that failed) and EVERYBODY seems to want you to buy their faffing cookbooks instead of just delivering simple information…
Ah. I feel better already. I am trying your simple simple simple approach to sourdough and here on Day 2 of a hot Vancouver summer, I already have Bubbles. Let’s see what explodes by Day 4–and who knows, maybe it will be cool enough to bake bread. Or make pancakes. Or…bake those choc chip cookies now in the freezer…
happy summer!

By: another milestone …. | Gourmet Traveller 88

another milestone …. | Gourmet Traveller 88 — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:18:30 +0000

[...] from Joy the Baker: Joy has great baking recipes that start from scratch. If you would like make your own starter, [...]

By: Temple

Temple — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:27:25 +0000

I cannot keep my starter going. It is not bubbly and the bread does not rise as much as it should. I have been on and off with sourdough bread starters for over 15 years. For some reason, I cannot keep my starter going. Can you help?