Can you use your starter and feed with my sugar, flour, instant potatoes and water feeding ingredients?
1593849
This is a question to ask the seller. I have fed my starter according to the directions provided and was fed with flour and water.
1593850
This is an unusual question since the yeast is a live culture that only requires regular feedings of flour and water to survive for centuries, to be used as a starter with the other ingredients in bread baking recipes. I would suggest that she go to their website "breadtopia" that has a forum and a link to their developer, Eric (eric@breadtopia.com) and ask him, I'm sure he will answer the questions as he has mine.ps: In the book "Classic Sourdoughs" by Ed Wood, he states " Do not add anything but flour and water to your culture".
1593851
I would not. This starter is already going, so you should only feed it flour and water. I use about a tablespoon of organic rye flour per week and the rest organic white flour. Using sugar and instant potatoes would degrade the integrity of the starter and would eventually turn it into something else entirely. You are probably looking at a recipe for making your own starter instead of feeding a live starter. Breadtopia has an awesome website, and their starter comes with very detailed instructions. I just started making plain old yeast bread a few months ago and decided to try this instead; I've found it is definitely the way to go and worth the bit of extra time and effort! In fact, we just had company over and served sourdough baguettes with dinner and they proclaimed them the best sourdough they'd ever had.
1593852
Absolutely! those ingredients are what I used to propagate my sourdough starter works great!
17481
Every thing is included to start brewing. You may add additional ingredients if desired (fruit, spices, sugars) but they would be for taste or final alcohol content with the later.
166662
No reason why not. Just as with any bread machine you would not be able to delay the start of the bread because the wet ingredients would react with the yeast. This machine may be better equipped to do non-standard recipies because all the stages are configurable.
744500
Don't put sweet potato by itself...mix it down with apple or pear. I usually use apple or pear sauce as a base to whatever else I mix with it. Apple, sweet potato & carrot with a small amount of maple syrup has been a favorite. When I make apple sauce I tend to have an overabundance of granny smith apples so I add a little maple syrup to offset the tart flavor of the apple. Look up online any of the well known name brand pouches and see what kind of mixes they are putting together. That is where I got a lot of ideas. For instance, pear, blueberry & beet. I am mixing the nutritive veggies/fruits a lot heavier than you see in the commercial pouches, but again if you use apple or pear sauce as a base it will be naturally sweeter and a little thinner than most things you would put in by themselves.
791687
No, you wouldn't be able to get a whole bag of flour in one of these. Maybe half of the bag would fit. Same thing with sugar.
2023983
yes, get the starter growing and use any of the numerous recipes to make pancakes or waffles
1512671
definitely. I can easily fit 2 large slices of bread, so potatoes shouldn't be a problem.
639607
If you take some from your first batch and just freeze it in an ice cube tray you now have several batches of starter, and when you run out you can repeat the process up to 10 times/generations before it doesnt set up well. I only buy some starter about once a year and i eat yogurt almost every day. I have also found that time to set up increases as you get several generations into the process.
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Sure, it will work great. You could add a tbls of milk too to make potatoes looser. If it were me I would mix the milk and cream powder before adding to potatoes so you don't overmix the potatoes. Overmixing would be a big mistake and a common one.
83729
Yes I use the russet potatoes from the store. I havent had on thst it couldnt handle. I love it.
1639407
You can use store bought plain yogurt with this as a starter. You will also be able to make a yogurt cheese which is a bit of a chore, but is pretty good.
1186725
I pour the 5lb bag of flour into mine. Looking at my container i believe you can.
849866
The starter package contains yeasts only. When you begin the starter, you will use bread flour to provide sugars for the yeasts to then grow. I would not see a way around using wheat flour for the starter, but it is only a portion of your total recipe. You would be able to minimize, but not eliminate glutens in the final bread product.
1040338
yes. i have mine feeding my frig and a water tap. i'm sure you could just feed a refrigerator.
975024
YES, I just started using my own starter from my previous batch of yogurt. The previous batch was made with a starter packets, two (2) packets of 5g of yogurt starter, making two (2) quarts. My new batch I used 3-4 Tablespoons of previous batch, which is probably way too much. It did come out wonderful, a little thick, just add some milk if it is too thick. I have read and you only really need "...2-3 teaspoons of commercial or homemade yogurt..." I just get carried away. I make at least two (2) batches a week, so yummy--add raspberries for a topping. I use 2 bags of frozen raspberries place in a pot, adding some water, maybe a 1/2 cup and add about 1/2 cup of sugar.
263767
You can. You need to add the sugar just before or after the first few kernels pop.
659076
You can use store-bought yogurt. We bought the starter and it didn't work. It may have been because of the hot weather and it died in shipping. I don't know. Ever since we have used store-bought and it works just fine. Use plain yogurt with live/active culture. Good luck!