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room temperature

teff flour + 3 cups water, whisked until no dry pockets remain and the slurry pours like thin cream — teff is tiny and mostly bran, and the wild yeast and lactic bacteria that will sour this live on that bran, so unwashed flour and an unsterilized bowl are features. Add ersho now if you have it; it only speeds a ferment that would happen anyway.