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I like the idea of incorporating locally available microbes but forgive my ignorance: is it safe?
by athenot 8y ago
I like the idea of incorporating locally available microbes but forgive my ignorance: is it safe?
- beat 8y agoOh, it's perfectly safe. You can tell by the smell... a healthy sourdough culture smells healthy, a rotten culture smells rotten. The yeast/bacteria system is extremely tough and resistant to other microbes and molds.
- HeyLaughingBoy 8y agoI did it for years and my family's still here :-)
- dredmorbius 8y agoSurvivor bias!
- X-Istence 8y agoWhenever you feed your sourdough starter, or add locally bought flour, or anything along those lines you are introducing locally available microbes. A sourdough starter from SF won't be a SF sourdough for long just because of the microbes in the air/flour as you continue to feed it. It becomes it's own living and breathing organism that you have to take care of or it dies.