How Much Neglect Can a Sourdough Starter Take? Is My Starter Dead?

If you have kept a sourdough starter for a long time, then you know all too well how often it must be fed and what temperature, flour, and water it likes and performs best with. You would have had the need to store it somehow when you went on vacation. Most of us just feed it and pop it in the fridge. The cold temperatures slow down the activity and the fresh flour added is enough food for the slow starter to keep it going for a long time.

Some bakers like to keep their starter in the freezer. Some brush a thin layer of it on baking paper, let it dry out and then turn it into a powder that then can be mixed with fresh flour and water and brought back to life.
I have never worried too much about it. There have been times that my starter was kept in the fridge for several months, and it still came back every time. I even left a piece of it in the fridge for a whole year just to see what would happen and it still came back with a couple of feedings.
Starters are indestructible.

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