Rye Sourdough Starter Smells Like Acetone

Acetone smell means there s no food left for your starter.
Rye sourdough starter smells like acetone. Increasing feeding frequency can help. If you allow your sourdough starter to ferment in the oven with the light on to keep it warm and then forget it s in there and turn on the oven it s unlikely your starter will make it out alive. Rye will grow more quickly than a whole wheat or all purpose flour starter so you need to feed more often and keep at moderate temps. Don t freak out over this too much.
On the other hand when your starter is in good shape it should smell fresh fruity and yeasty. Toasted 10 grain porridge sourdough with sprouted rye. At some point your starter will smell like this. I would just keep feeding in the ratio of 1 1 1 by weight starter water flour.
I personally prefer the pine juice solution for preparing the starter by debra wink. When sourdough starter isn t fed often enough or feedings are skipped it is common for an alcohol odor to develop. Granted i m not an expert on sourdough but with wine beer mead an acetone smell is usually ethyl acetate and frequently a sign that the fermenting temp was too high. I fed it 1 2 2 mature starter.
However if the starter has been neglected for a while it may require more effort to revive it. Acetone odor in sourdough starter. New starter smelling like acetone but is still doubling in size. 9 02 2020 update the smell is still there bit it has changed.
My sourdough starter smells like alcohol or nail polish remover. But it goes away very quickly and i can smell the yeast y scent from the starter. I was worried that i wasn t feeding it enough so i have tried the same feeding today to see how it does. So what does that even mean.
Yeast dies at 140 f and it s likely that your sourdough starter will suffer at temperatures even lower than that. My starter often to smells like alcohol usually when i haven t fed it for 24 hours or its a very hot day. Acetone the active ingredient of nail polish remover is usually a sign of underfeeding. Fresh fruity and yeasty aromas will vary from starter to starter.
Follow the fresh loaf on. Log in or register to post comments. Store bought unclorineated water 8 02 2020 update 2 the smell is back and the dough has risen to almost twice its volume. Things should improve shortly.
Some will smell like toasted coconuts and pineapple others will smell like apple cinnamon. Is there a way to fix it.