{"id":4618,"date":"2020-09-25T01:08:46","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T01:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/2020\/09\/25\/i-knew-it\/"},"modified":"2020-09-25T01:08:46","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T01:08:46","slug":"i-knew-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/2020\/09\/25\/i-knew-it\/","title":{"rendered":"I knew it&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Well&#8230; while this week has been crazy busy with work, I also was very excited with my sourdough experiment&#8230; and things turned out almost as I expected they would&#8230; with utter fun when Lois grew and foamed and in utter disappointment when it stopped, finishing in a nauseous mess that stunk like I couldn\u2019t imagine it would. Sourdough is not for me, <em>I knew it&#8230;<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2560\" src=\"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/img_5569-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4617\" srcset=\"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/img_5569-scaled.jpg 2560w, http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/img_5569-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/img_5569-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/img_5569-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/img_5569-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/img_5569-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/img_5569-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/img_5569-500x500.jpg 500w, http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/img_5569-1400x1400.jpg 1400w, http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/img_5569-600x600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption>Lois on the 2nd day, gently bubbling <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I read books, blogs, websites about sourdough before starting (it took me 5 years to get ready for the commitment!!!!) and while I was observing it growing. I wanted to do right, not to waste precious time and resources. Then I was almost desperate when it started to stink, read even more about all the possible tricks, tested them all: sugar, malt, fridge, not fridge, more food, more mixing, rest, splitting it and starting afresh&#8230; nothing seemed to have worked truly. Almost 1kg of mixture went down the drain in a terrible smell. The rest is sitting in the kitchen in a desperate hope I can still save it. The smell is gone but no foaming and bubbling as I thought it would&#8230; part of the passive mixture was used for pancakes this morning&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But before things went south I had on the third day just enough to make a tiny bread to test it when it was still good! And damned! Even if I rushed it a bit ( temperature went down with the rain so the rising was too slow for the impatient me!) the crust was perfectly crusty, the crumbs were moist and soft, and the taste of whole wheat and sourdough was amazing. Enough to keep me trying to save what is left of Lois&#8230; so now I am in this terrible situation where I want to stop hoping I can grew a stable relationship with my sourdough, but I can\u2019t take the final decision to trash it all, as the taste of sourdough bread was so perfect&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230; while this week has been crazy busy with work, I also was very excited with my sourdough experiment&#8230; and things turned out almost as I expected they would&#8230; with utter fun when Lois grew and foamed and in utter disappointment when it stopped, finishing in a nauseous mess that stunk like I couldn\u2019t imagine&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/2020\/09\/25\/i-knew-it\/#more-4618\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[359,347,367,364],"tags":[190,333,34,22,618,21,403,318,12,88,1412,16],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4618"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}