Posted on 05/16/2018 3:37:39 AM PDT by Winniesboy
As a scientist, I would be interested in analyzing samples of these yeasts. There must be considerable genetic drift going on, which should be quite pronounced in the older strains.
"I was so poor, when I was a kid, I had a sourdough starter as a pet."
“De Smedt will bring a sample of Christensens starter labeled 106 back to the library and also provide some to Italian researchers, in order for them to sequence and study the DNA profile of the sourdough.” (from the article)
I’ve kept starters going for several months...I think I kept one going for over a year. I find it a bit too inconvenient eventually because I go through phases where I’ll not even be using it for long periods of time and having to feed it and keep the container clean, etc.
I’ve started my own starter and also purchased King Arthur’s and kept it going for months. King Arthur’s is a great one to start with. I think it’s like $8 or so and you can get a nice already developed depth of flavor right off the bat. That way, if you decide to stop feeding it, you know you can still get a new starter from King Arthur, in just a few days which they’ve kept going for well over a century.
Make some beer with it!
Thanks, I will look out for when they publish results. It should be fascinating, in a nerdy way.
Smells like a case of cultural appropriation to me.
Sell it. 1 million bucks.
That reminds me....I need to get my starter out of the fridge and feed it. I need to make more bread. Homemade sourdough bread doesn’t last long around here.
I bought one over the Internet. Oregon Trail sourdough starter. It came to me dried on some coarse paper. In that dried form I think it keeps for a long time and you don’t have to feed it.
Marcia
Heh, the very first horror movie that I remember seeing.
Either that or Tarantula ... they both came around in the same period for me (as I remember)
Fungus!
Shared, thanks for posting.
Ah ha! I have a sourdough story. On my trip to Alaska, met a trapper and had dinner in his home. His wife served the most delish sourdough bread. B/c I raved so much about it, she gave me a large dollop to take home; they claimed that it was 60 y/o, and they had got it from a trapper who kept it in the waystations along his line.
Well, when I got it home, I put the sponge in a lovely crock with a nice rubber seal [in the back of the fridge.] Used it several times to make some pretty good bread.
Got home from work one day, and the housekeeper proudly announced, she had cleaned the fridge,
My heart sunk. Yep, she threw it out. A piece of history gone.
She said it smelled *disgusting* and didn’t look *right*.
A sad, sad day. :( {{{sobbing}}}
How sad.
As a scientist, I would be interested in analyzing samples of these yeasts.
Mmmmm. Brownies.
“I was so poor, when I was a kid, I had a sourdough starter as a pet.”
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