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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.)
    - Spivak 7y ago
      Yeah but you’re not a true artisan bread maker unless your starter descended from the first bread makers in ancient Mesopotamia.
  - thatfrenchguy 7y ago
    Realistically your country isn't really known for having any good bread though.
    - timonoko 7y ago
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalakukko https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalakukko https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bark_bread https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bark_bread

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.)
  - Spivak 7y ago
    Yeah but you’re not a true artisan bread maker unless your starter descended from the first bread makers in ancient Mesopotamia.
- thatfrenchguy 7y ago
  Realistically your country isn't really known for having any good bread though.
  - timonoko 7y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalakukko https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalakukko https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bark_bread https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bark_bread