My uncle said my sourdough starter was 'just flour and water sitting there doing nothing' and now I can't stop overthinking it

Jake Nelson · 2026-10-10T06:50:03.175549+00:00

He came by my place in Sacramento on Sunday while I was feeding my 3 year old starter, and he watched me dump half of it in the trash and said that exact line like it was a joke. The thing is, he's a retired chef who ran a pizza place for 20 years, so now I'm second guessing whether I've been babying a jar of goo for no reason this whole time. Does anyone else have a family member who totally dismisses the whole feeding schedule thing, and how do you deal with it without getting weird about it?

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