• CalicoJack@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 months ago

    It’s even worse when you bake sourdough. I’ve been cultivating that yeast colony, caring for it, loving it. It thinks I care, but it’s only being prepared for slaughter.

    • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works
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      10 months ago

      sourdough

      yeast colony

      Bacterial colony, no?

      Also, you kill only half of them each time. For the sourdough starter, it’s like a Thanos-snap coin-flip everytime you bake bread. The bacteria in your current sourdough starter come from a long line of statistically lucky ancestors.

      I suppose that’s kind of true for all of us, though…