If at first you don't succeed, ...
Try, try again or throw in the towel?
Remember that first round of kefir/flour I was hoping would turn into a beautiful sourdough starter for pizza dough? But it flopped? (And I thought it was due to my shifting it from a warm room to a chilly room.) (I'd link to it, but, well, my photos were nuked with the name change, and what's a link without a photo?) Well, I started a second round, and, sadly enough, it also appears to be flopping. This time I'm wondering if it's because there was whay more whey than kefir. Do I dare try again? It might not be such a big deal to keep trying, but this means I will have to sprout and dry and grind more wheat. Grinding is no big deal. It works the flab in my upper arms. But sprouting and drying is a big fat pain in the hooey. It's mostly the drying part that is the pain in the hooey, because this requires that I do all sorts of gymnastic-like moves to get at the dehydrator (it's stowed in the far reaches of an upper shelf behind ... oh, gracious, behind a good many things ... in my closet) and then the dehydrator takes up precious space no matter where I put it. And it produces heat. We've not had sunny days here in a good while, but, I'm telling you, we've had humid days, and dehydrator heat + humidity ( + space consumption by the dehydrator) = an even crankier cranky girl.
Remember that first round of kefir/flour I was hoping would turn into a beautiful sourdough starter for pizza dough? But it flopped? (And I thought it was due to my shifting it from a warm room to a chilly room.) (I'd link to it, but, well, my photos were nuked with the name change, and what's a link without a photo?) Well, I started a second round, and, sadly enough, it also appears to be flopping. This time I'm wondering if it's because there was whay more whey than kefir. Do I dare try again? It might not be such a big deal to keep trying, but this means I will have to sprout and dry and grind more wheat. Grinding is no big deal. It works the flab in my upper arms. But sprouting and drying is a big fat pain in the hooey. It's mostly the drying part that is the pain in the hooey, because this requires that I do all sorts of gymnastic-like moves to get at the dehydrator (it's stowed in the far reaches of an upper shelf behind ... oh, gracious, behind a good many things ... in my closet) and then the dehydrator takes up precious space no matter where I put it. And it produces heat. We've not had sunny days here in a good while, but, I'm telling you, we've had humid days, and dehydrator heat + humidity ( + space consumption by the dehydrator) = an even crankier cranky girl.