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Sourdough (rec.food.sourdough) Discussing the hobby or craft of baking with sourdough. We are not just a recipe group, Our charter is to discuss the care, feeding, and breeding of yeasts and lactobacilli that make up sourdough cultures. |
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Who is killing the penguins?
What is the carbon footprint of a loaf of sourdough bread?
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Who is killing the penguins?
"Dick Adams" > wrote in message ... What is the carbon footprint of a loaf of sourdough bread? Well, Dick, it depends on whether you are driving your gas-guzzling SUV to pick up the flour{;-) Graham |
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On Aug 13, 1:37 pm, "Dick Adams" > wrote:
> What is the carbon footprint of a loaf of sourdough bread? It could be that the grain is neutral... I figure a 50 lb. sack has 8 pounds of water. So there's probably 40-42 pounds of impoundment. Then we have the question of alternatives. If the farmer's not growing wheat or soy, he's probably growing corn. Corn leads us to ethanol or confinement meat... both are carbon disasters. So on the raw basis, I'd say wheat is good. Probably not as good as hunting and gathering, living in the trees and so forth, but probably about as good as we'll get for an industrial process. The baking of bread is problematic. Perhaps we'll see the eventual return of the village oven. I gotta believe the village oven will be more entertaining than TV. |
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