Why is my sourdough starter not bubbling
How to Fix Your Sourdough Starter When It WON'T RISE
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if your sourdough starter isn't Rising
as in it's not doubling in size at all
after you feed it here's how you fix it
I'm actually going to tell you two ways
you can fix it if you've baked bread
with your sourdough started before and
it's worked fine this method is for you
sometimes people say their starters
going well it's doubling in size it's
falling back down again and then all of
a sudden it just stops working for some
reason if that's your case what you need
to do is reset your starter honestly you
probably have too much sourdough starter
in your jar that is not getting enough
food to be able to grow and actually
double in size after you feed it so what
you need to do is take 25 grams just
about a tablespoon of your starter put
it in a new jar and get rid of the rest
of the starter you don't have to throw
it away you don't have to waste it you
can put it in a Sourdough discard recipe
you can do whatever you want with it but
you're going to take the 25 grams of
starter in the new jar and feed that 50
grams of flour and 50 grams of water
whole grain Rye flour or whole grain
wheat flour will work best since you're
trying to refresh your starter and get
it back active and thriving again when
you do this feeding put a rubber band or
something to Mark the top of the starter
and you're just gonna wait
you might have to wait longer than you'd
expect wait a full 24 hours to see if
the starter Rises if you keep waiting it
probably will rise if I had a guess I
bet if you're in this situation you just
have a large jar of starter and you're
feeding it like 50 grams of water 50
grams of flour and it's not Rising much
or it's just kind of sluggish or
something like that there's probably
just too much starter and not enough
food for it to eat and actually grow so
cutting down the starter to 25 grams and
feeding it 50 grams of water 50 grams of
flour that's going to give your starter
plenty of food to eat and the yeasts are
going to make that starter Bubble Up and
rise and within 24 hours I bet you see
the starter double in size even if you
have to wait longer than 24 hours that's
okay one time I let my starter go in the
fridge for about three weeks and for
whatever reason it was just slow and
sluggish and I thought it was not going
to rise again but I did this I gave it a
fresh feeding and it took about 30 to
maybe 40 hours and finally I saw it
slowly double in size so even if you
have to wait 48 hours for it to I will
just go for it once it finally doubles
get rid of everything in the jar except
25 grams of starter again and do this
one more time feed it 50 grams of flour
50 grams of water and wait for it to
double again it'll probably double a lot
faster this time now maybe your starter
has never ever doubled in size be honest
with yourself if you're creating a new
starter maybe you've tried to make one
from scratch and it's never actually
doubled in size before then you haven't
really created an active starter yet
you're still in that process of making a
new starter and that's okay but be
honest with yourself here if you've
never seen it double in size your
starter's not dead you just haven't
created an active sourdough starter yet
and Bubbles don't count sometimes you
can see bubbles in your starter while
you're making a new one but that doesn't
mean that's an active starter yet the
yeast needs to get really active in
there to create enough gas to actually
get the starter to double if you just
see some bubbles that doesn't mean your
starter is ready to bake with that just
means it's on the way to getting ready
to bake with so if you've been making a
new starter from scratch it's never
actually doubled inside size yet you
need to follow a plan to get your
starter from Day Zero basically till day
six or seven or eight when you have an
active sourdough starter on your hands
thankfully it's not actually that hard
to go from flour and water to sourdough
starter for me it usually takes about
six seven or eight days to get a
sourdough starter going from scratch if
you want to make your own sourdough
starter from scratch following My Method
go ahead and follow the video tutorial
right here or click the link in the
description and I've got a free
sourdough starter guide that you can
download and follow day by day step by
step as I show you how to make your own
sourdough starter I'll see you in the
next video
I just said sourdough starter like 800
times in that video
just like four minutes long