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Storing starter? ? ?
Will wrote:
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> Ray wrote:
>> I use several cultures, and occasionally some stay in the refrigerator
>> unused for weeks. I forget to feed them, and the accumulate a lot of brown
>> liquid. And they have a different odor.
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>> I can restart these, but it takes a couple of days. I just wonder whether
>> I'm getting the original once the restart.
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> I'm going to take a controversial position and say no... that when
> L.B. cultures age in cold conditions they change. The various critter
> populations adjust. The stuff that adapts to cold, acidic conditions
> multiplies and the stuff that likes heat fades away. It's called
> drift.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inherit...red_characters
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