Why is my dough taste sour?
Chef's answer
My bread tastes sour and yeasty If your bread has a sour, yeasty flavour and smells of alcohol then you have either used too much yeast.or you may have use stale yeast or creamed fresh yeast with sugar..
Frequently asked Questions 🎓
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Yes, you can overfeed your sourdough starter. Audrey explains: "Every time you add more flour and water, you are depleting the existing population of natural bacteria and yeast." If you keep adding more and more, eventually you'll dilute the starter so much that you'll just have flour and water.
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The primary reason home recipes for starter call for some of it to be discarded is "because as the starter is fed (refreshed) with flour and water to keep it alive and active, it continues to grow and expand to a far greater quantity than is practical, especially for home baking," Beranbaum writes.
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between 4 and 12 hoursThe very short answer is, your sourdough starter generally will be at its peak anything between 4 and 12 hours after feeding. The optimum time to use it will be when there are lots of bubbles at its surface and it has has physically risen to its peak level, just before deflating back down again..
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You can smell chorizo when it's cooking, and not just because of the fatty smell of meat browning. The air becomes saturated with the tangy, pungent scent of vinegar. There was almost no smell to the cooking meat at all..
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Therefore, the bread should be like smooth, neutral-flavored Canvas that will not clash with the strong flavors that go into the stuffing. If you go with this logic you need to stay away from sourdough bread, German rye, or an open crumb bread (bread with big holes) like ciabatta bread, french bread, etc..
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Yes, you can overfeed your sourdough starter. Audrey explains: "Every time you add more flour and water, you are depleting the existing population of natural bacteria and yeast." If you keep adding more and more, eventually you'll dilute the starter so much that you'll just have flour and water.
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Spoiled beef typically takes on a strange "rich" like funk. Ive never had sour before. Don't thaw meat in an environment above 40F. Thaw it in the fridge over a day, or run it under cold water, or keep it frozen until you are ready to cook, then spend the 10 minutes to defrost in the microwave..
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