My house is kept a little chilly so making a starter isn't very productive. I wanna try my hand at sourdough as a couple pros here make it look really good. I'm gonna make a hot box for my starter and see how it goes.

Can describe how you are going to make one, what does it consist of?

Are you talking about starting a sourdough loaf to get it to rise or making starter to get into making bread?

Don't you make a starter by letting it grow and discard half and repeat for a while? I'm gonna use a large cardboard box with a nightlight for heat. Just like a hot box for caulk with a lightbulb.

Back during the quarantine period of Covid. I followed some Sour Dough pages. There are all kinds of gadgets to keep your starter and dough warm and proofing. A quick search will bring them up. An insulated box and a heat pad tend to work out real good.

Oven with light on should work eh?

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Got one of these about 3 years ago. ..

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Probably could use seed starter pad if you already have one. My wife has some little jar deal she plugs in think just for dough.

Mac

I use the oven with the light on for the initial rise, when I perk up the starter I have a heat register in the kitchen, I put the starter on the edge of it, or the shelf right above it...too cheap to buy more gadgets, lol and this has worked well....

I keep my house between 58-64, and my starter sits on the counter in the coldest part of my kitchen. I sit the jar on a dish cloth, and will wrap it in a dish cloth if I need it to be warmer. I'm just not a fan of adding heat to it.

For proofing actual dough, I will put it in the oven to get it to move along faster.