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Yeast. I haven’t needed yeast in years, recently I found a recipe with yeast I wanted to try and found out that, at least where I am in Germany, yeast is sold o

Yeast. I haven’t needed yeast in years, recently I found a recipe with yeast I wanted to try and found out that, at least where I am in Germany, yeast is sold out. I heard about the webcam thing from my boss, he asked me if he gave me a webcam years ago when I started remote working. He did, but it was in the attic and I had to go looking for it ;)

coob 7y ago
You can make your own yeast: https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/31/21199708/yeast-diy-baking-covid-19-shortage-make-it-yourself-bread https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/31/21199708/yeast-diy-baking...
- Semaphor 7y ago
  Yeah, I know. But it doesn’t seem worth it to buy a kg of flour just to make yeast for a single recipe ;)
  - L_226 7y ago
    Also in germany, you don't need 1kg, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n9yh5lDvts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n9yh5lDvts I did this last weekend and made a pretty good loaf (my first time).
    - Semaphor 7y ago
      So the thing is, the recipe is for a nut-flour based pizza dough. I’m not sure if a sour dough starter works for that. And as I never made the recipe before, I wouldn’t even know if any problem is because of the recipe or some problem with the starter.
      - L_226 7y ago
        Fair enough, I would still just try anyway as that's the only way you'll know for sure. The yeast is pretty forgiving, all it does is eat sugars in the flour and convert into CO2.
  - gegtik 7y ago
    Google "yeast water" for an alternative
  - tomcooks 7y ago
    Especially considering how flour is becoming rare as well, at least in Italy and France
  - Xylakant 7y ago
    This one worked quite reliably for me with about 180g of flour. https://www.hefe-und-mehr.de/en/2015/05/brotbacken-fr-anfnger-xi-sauerteig-ansetzen/?noredirect=en_GB https://www.hefe-und-mehr.de/en/2015/05/brotbacken-fr-anfnge... You can always ask around in your friendly neighborhood forum for a starter culture, there's a lot of people that are willing to share. If you have bakers yeast, you can just feed it and multiply the amount trivially: Half a cube (20g) or 7g dry yeast, mix with 15g sugar, 100g flour, 100g water, let rise for an hour or two in a warm place. Fill in icecube form, freeze. Each cube is about half as strong as a "regular" cube, so you may need to experiment a little with rising time for your dough.
- timonoko 7y ago
  You can do this and wait for days and pray you have not created some nasty poisonous culture. Or you can use human gut microbes to generate instant safe yeast.
  - ben_w 7y ago
    “Human gut microbes” is a very broad category that also includes e-coli.
  - Spivak 7y ago
    Sourdough starter isn't some nasty poisonous culture lol. It's perfectly safe and every grocery store and bakery have huge tubs of it. If you're really concerned just go to your grocery store bakery, ask for some starter, and feed it.
    - timonoko 7y ago
      Never even heard of "sourdough starter". I use them small dry-yeast packets from Lidl. The point is that human shit and saliva are the surest way start right kind of fermentation of moonshine and hooch if approved products are not available. E-coli and other critters die anyways in the anaerobic process or in the oven. BTW. My "local bakery" is probably in Estonia. In another country that is. Wider Helsinki area is under lockdown and yeast may not be approved essential.
      - _ph_ 7y ago
        You can create your own sourdough just from wheat and water. Takes a few days till you have the first real dough, but from that on, you can keep the sourdough alive. There are plenty of YouTube videos about creating/using sourdough. With sourdough you make the best breads and don't need any yeast. (sourdough itself contains yeast)
      - ghaff 7y ago
        Starters from wild yeast has been how bread was made for thousands of years prior to the introduction of commercial yeast relatively recently. (And, of course, sourdough starters are still used to make sourdough bread.)
zonefuenf 7y ago
We had the same yeast problem and finally solved it by trying our local bakery, which happily sold yeast to us. Obvious in hindsight...
- Spivak 7y ago
  Your local bakery also will have cake yeast and instant yeast which is really good stuff that's annoyingly hard to find at grocery stores. Cake yeast I get because it's perishable but instant yeast has little excuse other than it has to be refrigerated after you open it.
- _ph_ 7y ago
  They probably will also sell flour to you. At least here in Germany there seems to be the problem, that there isn't enough flour packaged in customer packages. Bakeries get their flour by huge sacks or even in silos, so there is no shortage of unpackaged flour.
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kasey_junk 7y ago
Yeast came back in stock at my local stores just as the flour ran out.
- EGreg 7y ago
  Don’t worry At least us Jews won’t be buying yeast or flour in the next 8 days :)
Maximus9000 7y ago
Yup, same here in Canada - can't get yeast anywhere. Even flour is tough to come by despite the fact that Canada has tons of wheat - the flour mills are working overtime. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/food-and-wine/article-flour-mills-under-pressure-as-new-home-bakers-take-to-comfort-covid/ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/food-and-wine/article-f...
- systemvoltage 7y ago
  You can get flour from centralmilling.com

coob 7y ago

You can make your own yeast: https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/31/21199708/yeast-diy-baking-covid-19-shortage-make-it-yourself-bread https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/31/21199708/yeast-diy-baking...

Semaphor 7y ago
Yeah, I know. But it doesn’t seem worth it to buy a kg of flour just to make yeast for a single recipe ;)
- L_226 7y ago
  Also in germany, you don't need 1kg, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n9yh5lDvts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n9yh5lDvts I did this last weekend and made a pretty good loaf (my first time).
  - Semaphor 7y ago
    So the thing is, the recipe is for a nut-flour based pizza dough. I’m not sure if a sour dough starter works for that. And as I never made the recipe before, I wouldn’t even know if any problem is because of the recipe or some problem with the starter.
    - L_226 7y ago
      Fair enough, I would still just try anyway as that's the only way you'll know for sure. The yeast is pretty forgiving, all it does is eat sugars in the flour and convert into CO2.
- gegtik 7y ago
  Google "yeast water" for an alternative
- tomcooks 7y ago
  Especially considering how flour is becoming rare as well, at least in Italy and France
- Xylakant 7y ago
  This one worked quite reliably for me with about 180g of flour. https://www.hefe-und-mehr.de/en/2015/05/brotbacken-fr-anfnger-xi-sauerteig-ansetzen/?noredirect=en_GB https://www.hefe-und-mehr.de/en/2015/05/brotbacken-fr-anfnge... You can always ask around in your friendly neighborhood forum for a starter culture, there's a lot of people that are willing to share. If you have bakers yeast, you can just feed it and multiply the amount trivially: Half a cube (20g) or 7g dry yeast, mix with 15g sugar, 100g flour, 100g water, let rise for an hour or two in a warm place. Fill in icecube form, freeze. Each cube is about half as strong as a "regular" cube, so you may need to experiment a little with rising time for your dough.
timonoko 7y ago
You can do this and wait for days and pray you have not created some nasty poisonous culture. Or you can use human gut microbes to generate instant safe yeast.
- ben_w 7y ago
  “Human gut microbes” is a very broad category that also includes e-coli.
- Spivak 7y ago
  Sourdough starter isn't some nasty poisonous culture lol. It's perfectly safe and every grocery store and bakery have huge tubs of it. If you're really concerned just go to your grocery store bakery, ask for some starter, and feed it.
  - timonoko 7y ago
    Never even heard of "sourdough starter". I use them small dry-yeast packets from Lidl. The point is that human shit and saliva are the surest way start right kind of fermentation of moonshine and hooch if approved products are not available. E-coli and other critters die anyways in the anaerobic process or in the oven. BTW. My "local bakery" is probably in Estonia. In another country that is. Wider Helsinki area is under lockdown and yeast may not be approved essential.
    - _ph_ 7y ago
      You can create your own sourdough just from wheat and water. Takes a few days till you have the first real dough, but from that on, you can keep the sourdough alive. There are plenty of YouTube videos about creating/using sourdough. With sourdough you make the best breads and don't need any yeast. (sourdough itself contains yeast)
    - ghaff 7y ago
      Starters from wild yeast has been how bread was made for thousands of years prior to the introduction of commercial yeast relatively recently. (And, of course, sourdough starters are still used to make sourdough bread.)

zonefuenf 7y ago

We had the same yeast problem and finally solved it by trying our local bakery, which happily sold yeast to us. Obvious in hindsight...

Spivak 7y ago
Your local bakery also will have cake yeast and instant yeast which is really good stuff that's annoyingly hard to find at grocery stores. Cake yeast I get because it's perishable but instant yeast has little excuse other than it has to be refrigerated after you open it.
_ph_ 7y ago
They probably will also sell flour to you. At least here in Germany there seems to be the problem, that there isn't enough flour packaged in customer packages. Bakeries get their flour by huge sacks or even in silos, so there is no shortage of unpackaged flour.

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kasey_junk 7y ago

Yeast came back in stock at my local stores just as the flour ran out.

EGreg 7y ago
Don’t worry At least us Jews won’t be buying yeast or flour in the next 8 days :)

Maximus9000 7y ago

Yup, same here in Canada - can't get yeast anywhere. Even flour is tough to come by despite the fact that Canada has tons of wheat - the flour mills are working overtime. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/food-and-wine/article-flour-mills-under-pressure-as-new-home-bakers-take-to-comfort-covid/ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/food-and-wine/article-f...

systemvoltage 7y ago
You can get flour from centralmilling.com