Starter Sitter or Traveling Starters?

Well my new little pets are growing very well, and made some awesome sourdough bread today. There's just one little problem. My starters need feeding at least once if not twice a day, and we are going to my mom's house tomorrow for a night or two and it's a two hour drive away.

So do I need a starter sitter? I don't want to sound crazy by asking anyone to babysit some bread dough, so they will be taking the trip with us. I could stick them in the fridge and hope for the best, but you wouldn't do that to your pet rabbit or hamster, now would you? These are live little critters, and I've spent hours tending to them and pampering them, and I'm not about to have them die.

They've been spoiled with a perfect 80° kitchen. (yeast thrive at 80-85°) It's a little hot for me, but it's been 100° outside the last few days here, so that's why the house is so warm. (thank you arizona)

My starter has mold!

I really like sourdough bread, so I figured, why not make my own sourdough starter? Well, it's easier said than done. I've got so many scary looking starters on my counter, it looks like I've got the worst science fair project in history.

I started this about a week ago, and now I have 2 starters from the original. One wheat and one white. Then yesterday I noticed some fuzzy little invaders trying to sabotage my plan to have the best sourdough in the world (at this point i'll be lucky if it's edible).

So I did a search and found someone with the same problem that said just scrape the mold off, and feed it like normal. So that's what I did. I only needed 8oz of it, so I took the unfuzzy part and fed it with fresh flour and water. Today I don't see any mold yet, but every time I walk by them, I carefully inspect them (thank you ocd).

Last night I also made two new starters. One is yogurt sour, that one is scary! Have you ever been drinking milk, but didn't finish the last few swallows, and the next day you find a glass that looks like something Miss Muffett should be feeding the spider? (i don't remember if she fed the spider, maybe the spider scared her...)

The other is a different starter recipe with whole wheat and water. It looks promising, but I keep stirring it every now and then so if that darn mold is trying to grow, it will get killed by my little critters (yeast) I'm trying to grow.

That's all for now. This blogging is time consuming. I'll let you know tomorrow how my science project is going. Maybe I'll figure out how to put a picture up. Oh I hope someone starts reading this, because I seriously feel like I'm talking to myself.