{"id":676,"date":"2006-12-24T12:55:40","date_gmt":"2006-12-24T12:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=676"},"modified":"2006-12-24T12:55:40","modified_gmt":"2006-12-24T12:55:40","slug":"growth_spurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=676","title":{"rendered":"Growth spurt"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"photo\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/blog-photo-IMG_2905.jpg\" alt=\"Camaldoli\"><\/img>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nDuring the now weekly feeding ritual, my forgetful mistake became a fortuitous surprise.  I use a wide-mouth quart-sized canning jar to hold my Camaldoli sourdough culture.  Usually, I pour out enough culture to leave 1 cup left in the jar.  I then add a cup of flour and 3\/4 cup of water, stir it up, and put it back into the warm oven.  Today, I made some bread.  So I didn&#8217;t pour anything out before adding flour and water.  I took a cup of the culture for my bread but still had a lot left.  Mistakenly, I poured out the refreshed mixture down to one cup.  Sigh.  Oh well, I thought, I&#8217;ll just let the culture do its thing with less than normal.  Two cups is overkill anyways.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI check back and was surprised to find out that the culture had more than doubled in volume!  It went from 1 11\/16&#8243; to 4 1\/2&#8243; for a 2.769 times increase.  The lowest line is the starting level.  You can see the beginnings of a hooch forming.  The second line is the level of the foam.  And the top line was the maximum height that was reached.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIf I would have left it at its normal level, it would have surely overflowed all over the oven again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the now weekly feeding ritual, my forgetful mistake became a fortuitous surprise. I use a wide-mouth quart-sized canning jar to hold my Camaldoli sourdough culture. Usually, I pour out enough culture to leave 1 cup left in the jar. I then add a cup of flour and 3\/4 cup of water, stir it up, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}