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Old 30-09-2003, 01:57 AM
Samartha Deva
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Default Speeding up the process of getting the starter ready

Ignoramus3739 wrote:
....

Carl West offered to email it to me.


If you take a closer look, he wrote it conditionally: "If you can't... I
can...."

My opinion on this: I know a sucker, when I see none.

Of general interest, Samartha has posted a curve showing
how microorganisms increase their numbers. It is at
http://samartha.net/SD/SourdoughDefinition.html#SEC9


Good graph. I was hoping that warming the culture will have effect of
reducing the "acceleration" time. It is well known that cold
temperature retards biological processes in general (as well as most
cemical processes).


Well, it does but you seem to ask for an exact prescription of how to do
it, like warming it up by putting x amount of starter with y temperature
into z quarts of water with a temperature. I don't think anyone here is
willing to give you that and this is something you have to figure out
yourself. Start with the microwave for a couple of seconds, that's
probably the quickest way to get it warm and you don't need to measure
the water and temperature.

Samartha

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