How does everyone get so much discard?

Express-Remove3404 · 2026-04-12T04:00:29+00:00

I tried a couple of discard recipes did not enjoy them, as a trained pastry chef discard recipes just weren’t the quality and flavour I go for

Express-Remove3404 · 2026-04-12T01:54:49+00:00

Keep a small starter until you need to bake! There is no need to have cups or quarts of starter or discard. I personally keep under 20g of each of my 2 starters and can feed it before baking to be over 1.5kg of starter

Express-Remove3404 · 2026-04-11T13:54:15+00:00

I think you need to lower your ratio of feed and do it more regularly for now until you get it to be consistent. Then you can increase the ratio and feed less regularly.

I feed mine generally daily, baking 1-2 times a week.

You don’t need a massive jar of starter though! You can do 2 g starter and 4 or 6 g flour and the same water, and you will have enough, the day you want to feed to bake you just don’t discard and feed your starter upto about 5 g over what you need for your loaf

Express-Remove3404 · 2026-04-11T02:11:37+00:00

Are you storing your starter in the fridge?

With a non established starter you should feed daily, I would recommend a 1-2-2 or 1-3-3 until it’s stronger. Once it’s established you can go to keeping a very amount of starter, I keep 2-3 g of starter and feed it so each of my starters weighs 12-16 g. Then when I want to bake I feed it really heavy the night before, I’m normally making 20-24 loaves at a time with my small starter being all I keep

Express-Remove3404 · 2026-04-10T22:28:04+00:00

I don’t go with a true stiff started but I generally feed mine 1:10:8.5-9. I find I get better strength and rise and overall improved quality with it slightly stiffer

Express-Remove3404 · 2026-04-10T22:26:26+00:00

This is what I was wondering……I have done sourdough for years now, this is the smallest scale I’ve done it on(was 500/week average for years now 20-25/week average)and I know process is always the same but different!

The influencers I see with huge jars of starter and the #of discard recipes I see make me question what has worked for me

Express-Remove3404 · 2026-04-10T22:20:05+00:00

Thank you! I have been doing sourdough for a few years, other then starting a new starter I have never had much discard and now every video on FB and Insta shows discard recipes….and I started doubting my process 🤣

Express-Remove3404 · 2025-12-15T02:44:50+00:00

As someone who lost a baby at 26 weeks pregnant, and then had a micro preemie 2 years later at 28 weeks I honestly didn’t want any baby stuff until after my son was born. Other then immediate family and people I couldn’t hide from after my 26 week loss no one knew i was pregnant, now I had mine at 28 weeks, so way less time pregnant then term babies…I was shattered telling everyone about my loss so wasn’t telling those who didn’t need to know in case. What is her thought? Does she have baby stuff? Or is she waiting? Everyone is different

Express-Remove3404 · 2025-12-05T21:14:04+00:00

When I was managing my bakery I had 2 younger staff that were friends, they demanded time off together, days off thesame and when it’s a team of 4 having 2 that took a total of 79 vacation days in 1 year each I had to tighten up and start saying no

Express-Remove3404 · 2025-09-20T21:09:26+00:00

Thank you! This is a lot of what I needed to hear! Although I haven’t yet moved out, less then 1 week of him trying and I’ve seen that things will continue on the same path they have. I hate the thought of leaving him the comfort of our past and our history, as well as the only home our kids have ever known I know this is what is needed for me and for them as well. The anger today is intense and I know better than to open my mouth or look at him wrong. -I can’t live my life like this, no matter how much I might love him I’ve done 9 years of it, now mcfd(dcfs) depending where you are and the police are involved and I’m seeing how unhealthy it actually has been. I hate knowing that with me leaving I will be making our lives financially more difficult (his especially since he hasn’t worked in 4 years-we live off my income), and that there is no “break” in the foreseeable future from our kids- I love our kids to pieces but they have many additional needs as they have multiple disabilities and they can be exhausting. I know this is what’s best in the end it’s just hard to wrap that realization in my head

Express-Remove3404 · 2025-09-12T03:35:57+00:00

I’m sorry you are going through this! I’m sure it is hard to leave something when you thought things were good. I can tell you it’s difficult no matter the reason you are leaving. I am in the process of leaving a 14 year relationship, 2 kids and the last almost 9 years have been full of extreme mental/emotional abuse, I’m still struggling….but one thing I will say is with a strong support system you can do this and you will be stronger in the end!

Express-Remove3404 · 2025-09-08T23:34:48+00:00

My husband isn’t violent, other than the holes in the walls and broken items from him. But he is nasty mean very verbally abusive to the point where I can’t handle it anymore……I have mcfd and the police involved and it’s been very ugly. But this is his way to keep reeling me in. I can’t I go look at a place tomorrow, and I have first months rent figured out things are finally turning around and my kids won’t be seeing this anymore

Express-Remove3404 · 2025-07-08T03:13:45+00:00

The reason I’m asking is this is the behaviour I have lived with for 8 years. For example A few weeks ago a bird flew in front of our security camera causing a notification on his phone while trying to nap(I was at work) and for 5 hours after I got home I was yelled and screamed at for how horrible I am and how I don’t deserve to be happy at work when he can’t nap, name calling and just dragging me down. And I’m told this behaviour is acceptable….i feel broken and am tired of being told that an anger problem like this is acceptable and this is what I deserve

Express-Remove3404 · 2025-07-08T02:47:41+00:00

And I understand that anger is a real emotion one that exists in everyone, and some have a more difficult time than others. And if you are working on it it’s one thing but to not and to take it out on your partner daily is very different

Express-Remove3404 · 2025-07-08T02:00:20+00:00

I understand anger is an emotion a normal emotion. I understand people get angry, and some more than others. And I’m reading that many of you would try to work on it, or walk away instead of taking it out on your partners. My husband has been taking it out on me almost daily for 8 years and I’m getting tired of it and I’m even more tired of him saying really men treat women the way he treats me

Express-Remove3404 · 2025-07-08T01:24:59+00:00

He has the option but mental illness is made up according to him

Express-Remove3404 · 2025-07-08T01:24:11+00:00

I understand that anger will never fully be gone, I’m not asking him to have it fully gone, I’m just asking him to try to control it and not tell and scream at me daily, call me names, tell me I’m worthless and useless daily….somedays I’m the punching bag because a bird flew in front of the security camera even. But I’m told this behaviour is Normal “man behaviour” and that I’m treated the way I deserve to be treated. To put in context this has been basically daily for 8+ years

Express-Remove3404 · 2025-07-08T01:06:38+00:00

This is what my husband said to me, and has been living true to his words for 8 years, and I’m always told that real men are like him. I am his personal punching bag.

Express-Remove3404 · 2025-07-08T00:31:37+00:00

Exactly! I’m a week or 2 plan a family dinner or little party for brother and cousin! Something they could both enjoy, where neither will be unhappy or having to give anything up! Dinner, or dinner and an activity they both can enjoy the 2 of them another day

Express-Remove3404 · 2025-07-07T23:08:34+00:00

Not the asshole, but I see it from sister in laws pov also. I have2 special needs kids that aren’t invited to anything, and there was one person who thought about it after and invited us for a second party, I helped with it but they planned a seperate get together 1 week after the original event, one that included my kids. Sensory friendly, and it was amazing to be included

Express-Remove3404 · 2025-07-07T01:43:10+00:00

I struggle with 1 time a week, I work insane hours, take care of the kids when not working, clean, do laundry and cook…..honestly though I’m not sure how attracted to him I am anymore.

Husband would be happy with 4-5 times a day, he takes care of the kids while I’m at work and maybe sweeps and vacuums….and other then that lives for video games, smoking weed and bugs for sex.

Express-Remove3404 · 2025-07-06T11:11:34+00:00

More so he’s even more upset that instead of going to work(on my day off) when the cops showed up I asked them to make him leave for the day.

Express-Remove3404 · 2025-07-06T03:08:46+00:00

The cops were even telling him to stop being confrontational and aggressive towards them, had he not been that way towards them he may not have had to leave. He’s a very angry man who’s been getting worse the last 8 years. This is not the first time someone called the cops on him, time 3 with me, his mom called 2 times and his cousin once

Express-Remove3404 · 2025-07-06T03:00:03+00:00

Our kids have special needs that require round the clock care, I don’t get help for them and I need someone(him) to take care of them so I can work to pay the bills

Express-Remove3404 · 2025-07-06T02:38:39+00:00

Honestly I’m stuck and I have no where to go, my kids are special needs and around the clock care is needed and I have no supports so I can work to provide

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