Throwing away a starter is unnecessary. You can use the starter to make a lot of different nice stuff. Or you can just be really dilligent in not over feeding your starter, just , feed it, use it, feed it, use it Feks you can just fry the starter itself in a pan, with some spices. Is a really nice tasty thing. If you do the tip about a bit drier consistency mentioned in , you will get thicker and fluffier fried sourdough. The picture below depicts that. You can make waffles, nan bread, pizza, and alot of different cool stuff.
Feks sourdough nan is really good! We can also go back in time and do some really really old recipes from , like warm bread, waffles, cakes and other jummy stuff Look at King Arthurs example of discarding sourdough: