"TG" wrote in message ...

I can't be sure but since I've activated all of the
starters from SDI (not because I bought them myself) and they've all
gone exactly the same way smelling exactly the same and all having the
exact same snotty phase.

One's I got were totally lifeless. No smell at all atall. Two outta two
possible. Both times SDI was unconciliatory when I brought it to
their attention.

I perhaps wrongly conclude that the, now infamous leuconostoc
is the thing that's to blame, at least it's the only thing that I can name
to blame.

Possibly what you identify as leuconostoc is something that lurks in
your environs.

But if we had to be microbiologists and test
everything to absolute certainty before we assigned a name to anything
in conversation there'd be very little conversation.

Well, you could avoid naming things with microbiological names, else
using such names very tentatively.

We are writing in rec.food.sourdough not "Science".

You can say that again!

I have the feeling that's how you feel about all SDI starters.

Well, like I said, I only tried two of them. My reaction has
been more towards SDI attitudes.

There's more to the sourdough experience than just eating
bread. There's few of us enlightened, few of us who don't want
to be distracted by one thing or another at some point. We can
only hope that there's a glimmer of awareness and moderation.
If so then we'll stick with it through the attachment and not be
so unbalanced as to have out interest turn to aversion and
bitterness. Not you of course Dick.

I guess you mean that I should try to be more philosophic?

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Dicky