Comments on: Put Down That Burger

By: whig

whig — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 07:57:27 +0000

Hemp is a good addition to your starter if you have it, actually, putting aside legal considerations. Like hops, it’s protective of good yeast against undesirable bacteria. At least the potent kind is.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 02:31:32 +0000

it wasn’t distilled water, so maybe that was the problem. also, this was in the land of the feral hemp, so maybe the yeasties were just too laid back. 🙂

By: whig

whig — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 08:20:30 +0000

Bread is the staff of life.

By: whig

whig — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 08:19:27 +0000

You need good water and good food for your own bodies, for that matter.

By: whig

whig — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 08:14:20 +0000

People spent 40 years in the desert looking for a yeast. You know?

By: whig

whig — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 08:13:11 +0000

If all else fails you can ultimately adopt a commercial yeast, and feed it for awhile to make it your own starter.

By: whig

whig — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 08:09:32 +0000

Also you can’t use mineralized water, you need to purify it. Distilled (or reverse osmosis should work) water is necessary.

If the people can’t get bread, we can’t do much to restore civilization, now can we? This is important stuff.

By: whig

whig — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 08:06:45 +0000

I’ve heard of it working in Vermont. I think it has a lot to do with how polluted your air is, and where the air is coming from.

It’s manna, you know.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 07:01:58 +0000

i don’t know if that recipe works here in florida or not, whig, but i can tell you that when i tried it back when i was living in the cold frozen north, my friends stole it, painted it, glued it to a piece of plywood, and awarded it to some poor undeserving soul as an anti-trophy.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 03:31:28 +0000

We suffer from a lack of real ingredients unless you buy on the ‘Net. Buying food mail-order is not progress.

You can get local grapes that haven’t been dosed in pesticides or irradiated that were made in to raisins which means they probably have wild yeasts on them. Almost everything we have available locally is processed. The vegetables are more apt to be from Mexico than South Florida and they were probably picked green.