"Will" wrote in message ...

In Kenneth's situation it looks like he ran the starter too long at 80
F. Could have been a feeding thing. His starter was more depleted than
he realized at the beginning. Or maybe he didn't run it at 80 F. he
ran it at 95 F. perhaps his thermostat is bad, or it might be a
balance thing where he refreshed successfully over the last umpteen
bake cycles but chilled his reserve before the populations rebalanced.
Who knows?

Seems to me it must have died in the fridge. 80 F's, or even 95 F's for
a while, should be entirely tolerable. It has been written (at r.f.s. I think)
that it takes repeated culturing at 95 F's to drop the yeast out. (Did'ja
know that ° is alt248?. Now everybody can write 95°F.!)

Now there's a thought -- maybe Kenneth has a Celsius thermometer and
does not know it.

If I could do it over, Dickie, I would have never been a Republican in
my youth (arrrgh!) and I'd have a straw-bale house.

I would be a better terrorist, but then there was a dearth of role models.
I did scarcely better than long-fuse cherry bombs in Republican mailboxes.

posts, for the most part, have been stupid lately (Viince excepted).

Him??! He dunno even how to spell his own name! Well, he is a good
fellow nontheless. He is not always trying to pry us out of ourselves with
socratic interrogations like Kenneth does, for instance.

--
Dicky