Remove your starter from the fridge and add the flour and the water and stir vigorously. Once it's doubled in size this will give you 500g of active starter which is enough to make 4 loaves using 80g per loaf, and enough left over to feed to put back into the fridge for next time.

Scrape around the sides of your container so that you can see what is happening to the starter as it is rising, and make a mark with your non permanent marker pen on the outside of the container where the level of the starter is.

Put starter aside until it is bubbly and active … this will take 4 to 8 hours to double in size. If it is very cold then I will usually place the starter container on a board that I have placed close to the light under the exhaust … this creates enough warmth from the light for the starter to rise in about 6 hours. Otherwise i just leave it on my bench top.

Once the starter is bubbly and active it is ready to use (you will see air bubbles within the mix, the mix will have risen within the container and look fluffy, when poked you will see large air bubbles that will pop in the mix).

Before you start making your dough, place a plastic freezer bag on your bench, one for each loaf you are making, and spray with olive oil

For each loaf of bread add to your TM bowl in the order listed: starter; water; flour and salt.

Turn the TM bowl upside down onto the freezer bag and twiddle the base of the blade of the ™ bowl to help the dough drop onto the oiled bag … remove the last of the dough by Turbo x 1 and add to the mix on the bag

NB: If you are using spelt flour, you will find it particularly sticky ... I keep a separate spatula in a jug of water near the plastic bags as I dip that into the ™ bowl and use that to scrape around the bowl as the dough does not stick to the wet silicon spatula

Continue until you have done your desired loaves (no more than 4)

Rest dough for at least 20 minutes before you progress to the next kneading stage (this resting period is called “autolyse” which allows the flour to absorb more fully into the liquid and is an important step to do)

While you are waiting for the dough to rest, you can feed you starter to go back into the fridge

Firstly, you want to keep 150g of starter in your container to feed and no more

Secondly, tare your digital scales before putting your container onto it

Thirdly, add the weight of your container (if using a 1 litre Decor round container like I do it is 60g without the lid) to the 150g of starter you want to keep which = 210g (if you are following my process you would have weighed your container before using it to house your starter)

Then place your container with starter inside on the scales and see what the weight is

Use a spoon to remove excess starter until the scales measure 210g ... you now know you have 150g starter left in your container

Feed your leftover starter 60g rye flour and 90g filtered water and stir vigorously until well combined

Scrape around the sides of the container so that it is relatively clean, and again make a mark on the outside with a non permanent market pen on the level of the starter (you are only marking the container to give you feedback on what your starter is doing whilst in the fridge ... it will sometimes rise a little but that tells you it is very happy which is good to know)

At the same time mark today's date on top of the container so you know when you last fed it

Put the container back into the fridge until you need to use it next time

You are now ready to finish the final step in Day 1

Starting with the first dough you prepared, pick up the bag with the dough on it and allow the dough to drop into the ™ bowl (it should just slide off because of the oil on it)

Whilst doing that, place the freezer bag back onto your bench and spray it with a little extra olive ... this is important as it will help stop the dough from sticking to the bag when you remove it on Day 2 or Day 3, it also adds a little extra moisture to the mix which does it good

After kneading turn the TM bowl upside down over the same plastic bag the dough was originally on, and again twiddle the base of the blades to help the dough drop out ... it will be a little stickier this time because of the extra kneading so use your wet silicon spatula to help remove it, and turbo x 1 if needed

Lift the bag up with the dough on it in one hand, and use your other hand to pull the underneath of the bag back and over the top of the dough so that you are enclosing it ... before you close the bag, spray the inside base of it with oil where the dough is going to come in contact with it and loosely tie the bag up and leave it on your bench

Continue with your next dough using exactly the same process

For ease of handling, put the bags of dough into a container and place into fridge until tomorrow or the day after