Vent: My sourdough starter exploded on day 4 and I almost quit

I live in a tiny apartment in Toronto and had my starter on the kitchen counter. On day 4, I came home from work and found the jar lid had popped off. There was fermented goo all over my counter, my cookbooks, and a little bit on the ceiling somehow. I was so mad I almost threw the whole thing in the trash. But my neighbor who bakes told me to just scrape it back into a clean jar and feed it like normal. I did that, and somehow it worked. The bread came out okay after a week. Has anyone else had a starter go rogue like that?

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robinson.paul6d ago

Honestly I used to think folks were overreacting about starter explosions but that day 4 mess changed my mind completely. Did you have to repaint that bit of ceiling or just leave it?

sam_scott597d ago

Happened to me too, starter got so active it pushed the lid off and dripped down the cabinet. Just scraped it back and kept going, turned out fine.