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Took me three days to figure out why my sourdough starter kept dying
I moved to a new apartment in Phoenix and my starter just would not get active, no matter what I fed it. I tried different flours, water temps, everything. Turns out the tap water here is so heavily chlorinated it was killing the culture. I switched to filtered water and it bounced back in about 36 hours. Anyone else in a city with bad water have a fix they like?
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barbaraw162d ago
My friend in Vegas had the same issue and just buys jugs of spring water now.
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masonm852d ago
But is that really solving the problem? Buying all that plastic just moves the waste somewhere else. It's still a ton of bottles to deal with, and you're paying a company for water you could filter yourself. A good filter on your tap fixes the taste for good without the constant cost and trash.
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