Dick Adams wrote:
> > in message ups.com...
> rambled a bit, and asked if he might be on the right track
>
> Scott, since you are, by your e-addy, an innovator, I suspect that
> you will do whatever you do in whatever way you elect to do it in.
>
> But perhaps you would be interested in my graphical explanation of
> my process, i.e.,
> http://home.att.net/~carlsfriends/di...structions.doc
> at http://home.att.net/~carlsfriends/di...owthcurve2.GIF
> based on http://samartha.net/SD/SourdoughDefinition.html#SEC10
>
> My presumption is that (a) the concentration of bacterial products is
> kept low by dilutions, but increases in the dough stage and/or (b)
> bacterial growth (and the production of their acidic and tasty products)
> is enhanced by the appearance of nutritive body parts of dead and dying
> yeast when the yeast runs out of nutritive substances. (One theory, as you
> may have heard, holds that the yeast leave maltose for the bacteria.)
>
> I feel that the generation of this sort of pictorial complexity is innovative,
> so I thought you might be able to take some interest in it. It is, however,
> generally unacceptable to the R.F.S. readership, and certainly not worth
> taking any chance of a headache.
>
while we are on the subject of pics- thought i would link mine. as you
all know i am a noobie, however with the assistance from this group, i
think i am finally getting somewhere. these loaves were made using the
recipe above-thx DickA! i slashed the one on the right directly after
forming, and the one on the left right before baking (testing to see if
slashing before or after rise made a diff).

i found that it had crispy crust and the crumb was soft and not very
sour. so on the next loaves i used a rye starter as base, and had a
much more sd taste, at least the sd taste i like

thx again to the everyone on the ng

here are the pics:
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-3/964783/P1010013(7).JPG
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-3/964783/p1010011(7).JPG
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-3/964783/p1010009(8).JPG
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-3/964783/p1010010(11).JPG