Food & cooking
Multi-stage starter build budget
Track flour, water and carried starter mass across explicit feeding stages.
A clear answer. Here’s how.
Each stage uses the entire previous build as seed, adding flour and water according to supplied grams per gram of seed. No discard is assumed; totals become the next stage’s seed. Supports 1,000 stages with a 1-billion-gram maximum build. This is mass budgeting, without fermentation timing, maturity or temperature predictions.
See a worked example
Worked example
A fixed demonstration, separate from the values you enter above.
- Starting seed starter (g)
- 20
- Project CSV
Stage,FlourPerSeed,WaterPerSeed Build 1,2,2 Build 2,1,1
Example result
| Stage | Seed used (g) | Flour added (g) | Water added (g) | Total after stage (g) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Build 1 | 20 | 40 | 40 | 100 |
| Build 2 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 300 |
Every stage carries the whole previous build forward, with no discard. Ratios are added flour/water per gram of seed; no fermentation time, temperature or microbial prediction.