Oops! I KILLED MY MOTHER! How to revive a sourdough start after forgetting to feed it for a while

One thing I hate about sourdough snobs is how they shame you for forgetting to feed your mom. They will make you feel like you left your actual mom in the fridge for a week with no food or water. I'm here to tell you it's OK! Everyone, even those snobs will forget to feed their sourdough starter every once and a while. The good thing about the fridge is that the yeast is cold so it takes longer to die because its not using as much energy. So as long as you have a few living yeast cells in there you can bring it back. The only time I would not recommend trying this is if your mom is covered in mold, because the only thing you want to bring back is yeast. Especially if you are making a rye starter, we don't want another Salem witch trials on our hands. (Seriously ergot poisoning made them hallucinate, google it.)

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