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5:00:15
drmeister
Hey beach - do you bake bread? Do you have sourdough starter?
5:00:40
drmeister
My first attempt went funky and I dumped it today. I started again with whole wheat flour.
5:01:00
drmeister
I should get some culture tubes from my lab and approach this more analytically.
5:01:54
beach
I do bake bread. But there is powdered dry sourdough these days.
5:02:10
drmeister
Oh yeah - does that work well for you?
5:02:38
drmeister
We have bakers yeast - but it's not that good.
5:04:29
drmeister
Ok, I see it is available here.
5:04:40
beach
If I use only powdered sourdough, it takes several hours to rise. If I use an envelope of powdered bakers yeast, it takes an hour.
5:05:10
drmeister
It's undoubtedly the mix of wild yeast and bacteria that does the job. Bakers yeast may be a monoculture.
5:05:11
beach
But that's for my heavy rye bread. Maybe wheat bread is faster.
5:06:20
drmeister
I'll try the sourdough starter culture I started for another week.
5:06:28
drmeister
I'm in a nurturing mood these days.
5:07:27
drmeister
You could say a "startup" mood. A mood to start up new things.
5:11:08
drmeister
I was growing a beard as well - but I shaved it off yesterday.
5:11:24
drmeister
It was itchy as heck.
5:11:31
drmeister
Even after a month.
5:11:43
drmeister
And I have a beautiful face - it's not right to cover it up.
5:13:16
drmeister
I bet if you took that dried sourdough starter it would develop into a very nice culture.
5:14:05
beach
Sure. But I am not into things that require me to do things at regular intervals.
5:14:30
beach
I don't order delivery of weekly boxes of vegetables either.
5:14:31
drmeister
I find rhythmic things calming.
5:15:57
drmeister
Trance music, coffee twice a day, beating my head against a wall debugging non-linear optimizers.
5:16:45
beach
Already having to water the plants regularly is traumatizing for me.
5:35:29
drmeister
I'm heading to bed - good night.