My 76 year old neighbor told me to stick my starter in the oven overnight and it finally quit dying

Piper Green · 2026-11-04T23:25:03.531748+00:00

My starter kept going flat on me every winter, and I'd been babying it on top of the fridge like everyone says. Last Tuesday my neighbor Ruth, who ran a bakery in Omaha for 30 years, said just leave it in the oven with the light on, and it came back strong in 2 days. So now I'm curious, does anyone else warm theirs up like that or do you just feed it more flour?

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