On 11 Nov 2004 04:17:11 -0800, (maupas)
wrote:


I did it by making a "home autoclave."

I put flour in a Ball jar, sealed it, put the jar in a
pressure cooker and "cooked."

HTH,

Hi, do you do this because you too feel this is necessary to preserve
the original flavour of starters? Do you always use "autoclaved" flour
to refresh your starter? Last question...Doesn't the flour get
"cooked" in your autoclave?

Howdy,

Please don't top post. It makes it nearly impossible to
follow the thread...

No, I do not feed my starters with sterilized flour. When
there are billions upon billions of critters living in a
starter, there is no danger that they will be "taken over"
by the few that might be alive in the flour.

I did sterilize some flour because I was trying to culture
something (that was not a living culture) in flour and I
wanted to decrease the likelihood of contamination.

About the "cooking" of the flour: I simply don't know. I
thought about that but needed some sterilized flour for the
reasons that I described.

All the best,

--
Kenneth

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