My friend told me to always use a scale for my sourdough starter, and I finally listened after a year of flat loaves.

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What kind of scale did you end up getting, and did you find that weighing your water and flour made the biggest difference, or was it more about the starter itself?

haydenhayes1mo ago

Scales are a total game changer.

nancyramirez17d ago

Yeah, I feel for @jade_king, my first bricks were all thanks to cups. A cheap kitchen scale fixed that fast.

jade_king1mo ago

Forget the starter for a second. Did you start weighing your final dough ingredients too, or just the starter feed? My flat loaves were always from messing up the main dough hydration by using cups.