Sourdough Discard
WTF is Discard?
When you use some of your bubbly starter to make something, you have to replace what you used - this is what is pretentiously (if annoyingly accurately), referred to as 'feeding' your starter.
Well, if you don't use any starter, your bubbles go flat and you have to feed it to pump it up again.
Now, remember our ratio: 1:1:1. If you just whack in another 150g of water and 150g of flour you will have nearly half a kilogram of starter and it's gonna rise...and it may overflow and go everywhere. Also, you don't need an entire pound of effing starter.
So what do you do? You throw a bit away. You....discard it. You discard the Discard.
You will find yourself throwing away tons of it each day you don't bake, and you will think it's wasteful, but trust me, it isn't
It's fine, it's normal, it's part of the process.
If you look online you'll find tons of recipes telling you to shove your discard into various other dishes, but trust me, it's not worth it.
It tastes like arse.
The clue is in the name: DISCARD. Throw it the hell away.