So how is your starter starting? Is it idling, accelerating or just coasting?
Also how do you plan to knead that much dough? I can only speak from my experience, but my sourdough always turned out much too thick for a conventional mixer. Even with a dough hook, the KitchenAid started bogging down and smelling burnt. Working that much dough by hand, every morning, could wear a brother out.
I just woke up and finally got to taste it.
Yes, the starter is immature but it is progressing very nicely. (One of the two I pitched since it went off) I think I can work with it as it stands.
I'm thinking about buying some SF Warf dried starter that is very old. With that I can seed mine....and get a mature starter very quickly.
And as far as kneading dough....
I have several mixers. The smallest is a 20 quart. The big one is a 3 hp 40 qt....I wanted a 60 and a 120 but I got vetoed....I'll be proven right in the end but oh well....I'll make do until the time comes.
I think I need to plan on selling around 200 English muffins every weekend. Just as muffins with honey butter. Then the sausage (in house made) egg and cheese sandwich made on that muffin will be another hot item.
That's some work there.
I'll get almost $6 for 4 muffins...selling them by the bag. 4ea 4oz muffins is a 1lb bag of bread....and $6 is market rate for 1 lb of artisan bread.
The sandwiches will run around $6 ea as they stand...but mine are bigger and so much more delicious than anybody else has. ¼lb of sausage, plus egg, plus some gouda or meunster cheese....that's an excellent value.
All of it is very addictive stuff. One taste and it's an instant addiction.
There's something about these original foods that have been so mass produced for so long...yeah the mass produced is ok...and for some these things are all people know. But when you get the original that caused someone to bother with the mass production....you understand why we eat these things.
A package of chips ahoy cookies is so far removed from scratch toll house that you don't consider them the same thing anymore. Both are edible...both have their place. But if you have a choice between them....