Your Sourdough Starter Feeding Schedule Printable

A sourdough starter feeding schedule printable is the simplest way to stop guessing. It tells you when to feed, how much to feed, and what to watch for — on one page you can print, stick on the fridge, and follow with flour on your hands. No more scrolling through a phone mid-feed, no more wondering when you last fed it.

Here is the short answer: a starter kept on the counter at room temperature gets fed once a day, at a 1:1:1 ratio — equal parts starter, flour, and water by weight. A starter kept in the fridge gets fed once a week. Before a bake day, one bigger 1:2:2 feed 8 to 12 hours ahead brings it to full strength. The hard part is remembering all of it, and that is exactly what a printed schedule is for.

The Sourdough Beginner Kit includes feeding and baking schedules you can print and use right away — part of a 32-page guide built by a baker who feeds and bakes with sourdough every day. It is $9.99, it downloads instantly, and it prints cleanly on Letter or A4.

What's inside the Beginner Kit

• Feeding schedules for counter and fridge — daily and weekly routines with exact ratios, so you always know what to do next.
• A first-loaf walkthrough — your first bakes, step by step, with the feeding plan that leads into bake day.
• Troubleshooting pages — what to do when your starter smells sharp, rises slowly, or seems to have gone quiet.
• The Weekend Loaf plan — a full bake-day timeline that starts with one feed and ends with bread on the table.

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How often should you feed your starter?

It depends on where your starter lives. On the counter at room temperature, feed once a day. The culture is awake and eating, and a daily feed keeps it strong and predictable — you will see it double in roughly 6 to 8 hours after feeding, the sign of a healthy, ready-to-bake starter.

In the fridge, everything slows down. The cold puts the culture nearly to sleep, so once a week is enough: take it out, discard all but a small amount, feed it, let it sit at room temperature for an hour or two until you see bubbles, and put it back. That weekly rhythm is the one most home bakers actually keep — bake when you want, feed when the schedule says so.

The mistake most beginners make is feeding on vibes instead of a plan — twice one day, forgotten the next, then a panicked huge feed. A printed schedule makes the routine visible: check the box, move on, and your starter stays on a steady rhythm, which is the real secret to a starter that behaves the same way every day.

The feeding ratios that actually matter

Ratios sound technical, but they are just a recipe for the feed. A 1:1:1 feed means equal parts starter, flour, and water by weight — for example, 25 grams of starter plus 25 grams of flour plus 25 grams of water. That is your everyday maintenance feed, and for most kitchens it is the only ratio you will ever need.

A 1:2:2 feed — one part starter to two parts flour and two parts water — is the pre-bake feed. Give it the night before a bake day and your starter will peak right when you need it: domed on top, doubled in size, full of lift. Bigger feeds take longer to peak, which is why they work so well overnight.

In a warm kitchen, your starter eats faster, so a bigger feed buys you more time between feedings — feed a larger ratio instead of feeding more often. The Kit's schedules lay this out in plain language, in grams, so every feed is exact.

How to use a printable feeding schedule

Print the schedule pages and keep them where you feed your starter — on the fridge, inside a cupboard door, or tucked into your baking notebook. Fill in your own feeding times, because the schedule that works is the one that fits your day: morning and evening feeders end up with the same healthy starter, as long as the rhythm is steady.

Use the feeding log to note when your starter peaks after each feed. After a few days you will know its rhythm by heart — and spot trouble early, because a starter that suddenly peaks much later than usual is telling you something changed. That little log is the difference between reacting to problems and preventing them.

Keep the schedule next to the rest of the guide. Feeding is only half the job — the Kit pairs the schedules with first-loaf steps and troubleshooting, so the page that tells you when to feed sits beside the page that tells you what to do with a starter that is ready. Everything in one place, printed once, used for years.

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Feeding schedule questions, answered

How soon do I get the printable after I buy it?

Instantly. The files arrive in a separate "Your downloads are ready" email moments after checkout, and the download is instant — nothing to wait for, nothing to ship. Print the pages you need and keep the rest saved for later.

Does it print on Letter and A4?

Yes. The Kit is made to print cleanly on both Letter and A4 paper, so it works wherever you are. Print the whole guide, or just the feeding schedule pages — you can reprint as often as you like for your own personal use.

I'm a total beginner. Is this really for me?

It was made for you. The Kit assumes you have never fed a starter before: every schedule is written in plain steps with exact grams, and the troubleshooting pages cover the wobbles every beginner hits. If you have a starter — or you are about to get one, like our flaked dehydrated starter — this is the guide that sits on your counter while you learn.

What if I miss a feeding?

Nothing terrible happens. A starter is far tougher than it looks — feed it as soon as you remember, and it will come back. If it has been sitting unfed for a while, give it a couple of daily feeds at room temperature before you bake with it. The Kit's troubleshooting pages walk you through exactly how to bring a sleepy starter back to full strength.

Want to go deeper? The Sourdough Academy covers activation, feeding, and ratios in full, and the Baker's Percentage Calculator takes the math out of scaling your recipes. If you are building a whole baking routine, the sourdough baking schedule printable and the printable sourdough beginner guide pair perfectly with this feeding schedule.

Print the schedule, feed on time, and bake with confidence — get the Sourdough Beginner Kit for $9.99 and start tonight. 🍞

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