I am very excited about how well this turned out. I've just made my starter, Charlie, beginning a week ago.
Charlie was not looking like much until this very morning when a really sudden change from last evening's feeding had him climbing out of his jar. Due to space limits, I had been bringing forward 200 g of starter with each feeding. However, thanks to not really thinking it all through, I had a total of 600g ( 200g old starter, 200g water, 200g new flour ) of starter when I thought I had been working with 400g.
So with Charlie stepping out, it took a post to the 'building a sourdough starter' forum to wake up to the fact that I had enough starter to make a loaf after all. Sorry for the long story, but I'm very happy with the results. This time I followed the base recipe as written. I used my oval dutch oven again, since that's what I have and I really like the way the yeasted version made killer grilled cheese sandwiches.
Thanks again to Chef Jacob for the great instruction and the encouragement!
Without further ado, here's my first sourdough loaf:
