Any Home Bakers Here?

[Sally PB]

Results on my thyroid:

Nothing serious, completely benign. In fact, it’s nothing at all. No surgery needed.

I was thinking about you today, Jared! Very glad to hear it's nothing.

Hubby had a nodule on his thyroid biopsied a few weeks ago, and it was also nothing.

 

[fuzzi]

Results on my thyroid:

Nothing serious, completely benign. In fact, it’s nothing at all. No surgery needed.

 

[ronott1]

I feel like i am sooo late to this party but i have sourdough questions.
I got into sourdough about a year ago, started making my weekly challah bread with sourdough (well experimenting anyway), feeding my precious starter every couple of days, making discard recipes and trying my hand at actual sourdough loaf making. Even drying out some of my starter and sending it to a friend in another state that wanted to start her own starter. Mine came from out of state, a friend of my smother gave her a starter and when i went to visit, i brought it back in multiple ways.
Long story shortish, we had a house fire about 7 months ago and my poor starter has been in my fridge ever since- meanwhile we have been in a hotel. The rye version is toast (no pun intended) as it has about an inch thick layer of mold on it. The discard i was planning on using has about 2 inches of hooch on top and the main starter smells wonderfully sour but has no hooch and no mold. Is this saveable??
If so, how can i do it? We will be moving back home in a couple days and i want to have a plan of action to try to save it.

Only the moldy one is a worry.

Once you get the other two going again, you can store a bit of each starter in the freezer for long term storage.

 

[jnicholes]

That’s a concern.

 

[Sally PB]

Only if it's a recurring problem. A one off is just that, a one off. All kinds of hiccups and glitches can occur when a pullet or hen lays an egg.

Do you know which bird laid it?

 

[jnicholes]

Only if it's a recurring problem. A one off is just that, a one off. All kinds of hiccups and glitches can occur when a pullet or hen lays an egg.

Do you know which bird laid it?

Thanks for letting me know. So far, this is the only time it’s happened.

I know it’s either Scarlet or Barrette, one of the two barred Plymouth rocks. I know this is their egg color.

I call one of them Scarlet because she has a scar on her back from a dog attack that happened once.

 

[Sally PB]

That kind of thing happens. A little bit of something (a slough of tissue) or a tiny blood vessel can break and the resulting tissue/blood can end up in the egg.

You don't see these in store bought eggs because those are inspected (similar to candling, but I'm sure it's all automated and done by machine now) and anything like that becomes eggs for something else. Like pet food, or dried and added to ready mixes or whatever.

 

[LtDanFan]

No pink, no problem. Even pink has been salvaged. It ain’t recommended, but it’s been done.

What does that mean? I don’t see any pink and it smells sourdough-ey so does that mean it will be ok? I’m just not sure how to revive it. Its a regular all purpose flour starter. The rye starter i have is covered in mold and since i’m not interested in home made penicillin, im going to toss it and start over as soon as i have a kitchen sink to pour it into. But the discard jar i’ve was saving has about 2 inches of hooch on top. Any suggestions?

 

[BullChick]

The only mold that is actually dangerous, is pink mold. Hooch is just too much water. Stir it back in or pour it out.
The starter will revive once fed.
You can pour starter it in the garden, or in the toilet.

 

[LtDanFan]

The only mold that is actually dangerous, is pink mold. Hooch is just too much water. Stir it back in or pour it out.
The starter will revive once fed.
You can pour starter it in the garden, or in the toilet.

So if the mold is green, should i stir it back in and see what hapens? No pink mold noted. The starters were covered and in the fridge. But due to construction, the fridge may have been unplugged from time to time.