The LashTour - Yosemite Portion - Lodging poll

[JWBear]

Originally Posted by Promo-Man

I made no outrageous claims, it is a family story of how the starter came into our family and oral history is sometimes flawed now bug off.

I'm sorry if I misinterpreted you, but your post came across to me like you were making an outrageous claim to try and "prove" how much better your sourdough is. In other words: a silly attempt at one-upsmanship.

No two starters are the same, and determining who has the better starter is a matter of taste, nothing more. IMO, age does not guarantee a better flavor. Flavor comes from the particular combination of yeast and bacteria in the starter. (And that can change over time.)

[wendybeth]

For what it's worth, I thought Promo-Man's post to be a rather cute and flip 'history' of his starter- and I think his family lore would probably fit in quite well with mine, which tends to blur and outright ignore the historically factual lines of demarcation. Were he a member of my family, Gen. Pershing's great-grandmother's sister-in-law would have initiated the starter. (Or Daniel Boone's wife).

[JWBear]

Originally Posted by wendybeth

For what it's worth, I thought Promo-Man's post to be a rather cute and flip 'history' of his starter...

That's not how it read to me.

[Promo-Man]

Tell you what let's expand our starters and exchange them then we can both try both of them in our own homes.

Or we could arrange to have a sourdough pancake taste off

Originally Posted by JWBear

I'm sorry if I misinterpreted you, but your post came across to me like you were making an outrageous claim to try and "prove" how much better your sourdough is. In other words: a silly attempt at one-upsmanship.

No two starters are the same, and determining who has the better starter is a matter of taste, nothing more. IMO, age does not guarantee a better flavor. Flavor comes from the particular combination of yeast and bacteria in the starter. (And that can change over time.)