I've enjoyed reading here a bit so I thought I'd post about my current
adventure. I've currently got two starters going, both based on
Hamelman's new book. Both are perking away at the moment and there's
bread in my future this weekend!

A friend was asking me about all this so I just posted some photos of
their progress he

http://homepage.mac.com/mbgoodman/PhotoAlbum39.html

My biggest problem was coming up with a way to maintain temperature. I
live in a very old house with not much heat during the day, and not much
heat to the kitchen in general. I've never managed to find a good
solution to providing steady warmth for yeasty things, so I did some
head-scratching when I started my cultures this time.

One day I had a big ah-ha moment and headed off to the pet store. I
came home with an inexpensive plastic aquarium and an aquarium heater.
Since I don't want the aquarium to have much water in it, I put the
heater in a half-gallon mason jar filled with water. There's about 4"
of water in the tank and the containers of starter just float freely. I
put a water-filled plastic container under the culture-filled containers
to give a little stability especially for the stiff levain.

Hope this will help someone else looking for a way to grow yeasty things
in cool houses. Much more controllable than other things I've tried.

Hi,

Beautiful Pictures - great going!

If you have temperature control and like Hamelman's book, you may find my
Detmold 3-Stage calculator useful. He is quite fond of this method in his book.

http://samartha.net/cgi-bin/SD-Dtm-3-02.cgi

May your friends bug you for your bread!

Samartha

At 10:21 PM 12/29/2004, Mary wrote:
>I've enjoyed reading here a bit so I thought I'd post about my current
>adventure. I've currently got two starters going, both based on
>Hamelman's new book. Both are perking away at the moment and there's
>bread in my future this weekend!
>
>A friend was asking me about all this so I just posted some photos of
>their progress he
>
>http://homepage.mac.com/mbgoodman/PhotoAlbum39.html
>
>My biggest problem was coming up with a way to maintain temperature. I
>live in a very old house with not much heat during the day, and not much
>heat to the kitchen in general. I've never managed to find a good
>solution to providing steady warmth for yeasty things, so I did some
>head-scratching when I started my cultures this time.
>
>One day I had a big ah-ha moment and headed off to the pet store. I
>came home with an inexpensive plastic aquarium and an aquarium heater.
>Since I don't want the aquarium to have much water in it, I put the
>heater in a half-gallon mason jar filled with water. There's about 4"
>of water in the tank and the containers of starter just float freely. I
>put a water-filled plastic container under the culture-filled containers
>to give a little stability especially for the stiff levain.
>
>Hope this will help someone else looking for a way to grow yeasty things
>in cool houses. Much more controllable than other things I've tried.
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Hi,

Beautiful Pictures - great going!

If you have temperature control and like Hamelman's book, you may find my
Detmold 3-Stage calculator useful. He is quite fond of this method in his book.

http://samartha.net/cgi-bin/SD-Dtm-3-02.cgi

May your friends bug you for your bread!

Samartha

At 10:21 PM 12/29/2004, Mary wrote:
>I've enjoyed reading here a bit so I thought I'd post about my current
>adventure. I've currently got two starters going, both based on
>Hamelman's new book. Both are perking away at the moment and there's
>bread in my future this weekend!
>
>A friend was asking me about all this so I just posted some photos of
>their progress he
>
>http://homepage.mac.com/mbgoodman/PhotoAlbum39.html
>
>My biggest problem was coming up with a way to maintain temperature. I
>live in a very old house with not much heat during the day, and not much
>heat to the kitchen in general. I've never managed to find a good
>solution to providing steady warmth for yeasty things, so I did some
>head-scratching when I started my cultures this time.
>
>One day I had a big ah-ha moment and headed off to the pet store. I
>came home with an inexpensive plastic aquarium and an aquarium heater.
>Since I don't want the aquarium to have much water in it, I put the
>heater in a half-gallon mason jar filled with water. There's about 4"
>of water in the tank and the containers of starter just float freely. I
>put a water-filled plastic container under the culture-filled containers
>to give a little stability especially for the stiff levain.
>
>Hope this will help someone else looking for a way to grow yeasty things
>in cool houses. Much more controllable than other things I've tried.
>_______________________________________________
>Rec.food.sourdough mailing list

remove "-nospam" when replying, and it's in my email address