Can I feed my starter with whole grain flour but bake bread with all-purpose flour?
Yes, you can definitely start your sourdough with whole grain flour and then use all-purpose flour for your bread. Whole grain flour is great for starting because it has more natural microbes. Just keep feeding your starter to make it strong.
Answered by Hendrik, The Bread Code
From the book
Making a sourdough starter is very easy, all you need is a little bit of patience. It is in fact so easy that it can be summarized in a simple Flowchart 3.1 The flour you should use to bootstrap your starter is ideally a whole flour. You could use whole-wheat, whole-rye, whole-spelt or any other flour you have. In fact gluten free flours such as rice or corn would also work. Don’t worry, you can always change the flour later. Use whatever whole flour you already have at hand.
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