dannyboy602
Well-Known Member
I kid you not
How do you take your bread? Maybe you’re partial to a French baguette with lashings of strawberry jam. Or perhaps you’re a fan of toasted ciabatta beneath a bed of scrambled eggs. Or if you’re extra fancy you might opt for a slice of focaccia oozing with balsamic, onion, tomato, basil and cheese.
However, one feminist blogger likes sourdough but not just any sourdough, oh no, far from it! There are billions of bread recipes out there all of which will use some sort of raising agent to make the dough rise. Yeast is a popular favourite.
So let’s talk yeast. It’s alive! It’s not required for all types of bread but is a crowd favourite amongst many bakers. To make a sourdough “starter” you need to use a dough in which the yeast is constantly reproducing, as a regular dose of flour is added. Many people will use store-bought yeast, although I’d probably just use store bought-bread. Zoe Stravi on the other hand, who tweets under the handle “Another angry woman”, uses her own yeast. Literally.
She came up with an inventive and – ahem – pretty unconventional way of making food out of her own bodily secretions – using her own vaginal yeast.
Starvi decided to live-tweet the experience. She was backed by the support of a handful of people who appeared to enjoy the photographic evidence she was providing:
Starvi highlighted in her blog that she will be periodically posting updates after the “starter” has passed the fermentation state. The feminist also stated that she was quite surprised by the level of disgust she had received. She said: “I’d expected perhaps the odd ‘eww’ and maybe even an ‘I wouldn’t eat that that,’ but not this, the level of outright horror, as though I’d dismembered a litter of puppies and was posting selfies with a selfie-stick while doing it.”
I’m all for inventive cooking and an advocate for home baking. However, I think this is a little too far and I’m not sure Mary Berry would approve.
Now try just try to keep your lunch down
How do you take your bread? Maybe you’re partial to a French baguette with lashings of strawberry jam. Or perhaps you’re a fan of toasted ciabatta beneath a bed of scrambled eggs. Or if you’re extra fancy you might opt for a slice of focaccia oozing with balsamic, onion, tomato, basil and cheese.
However, one feminist blogger likes sourdough but not just any sourdough, oh no, far from it! There are billions of bread recipes out there all of which will use some sort of raising agent to make the dough rise. Yeast is a popular favourite.
So let’s talk yeast. It’s alive! It’s not required for all types of bread but is a crowd favourite amongst many bakers. To make a sourdough “starter” you need to use a dough in which the yeast is constantly reproducing, as a regular dose of flour is added. Many people will use store-bought yeast, although I’d probably just use store bought-bread. Zoe Stravi on the other hand, who tweets under the handle “Another angry woman”, uses her own yeast. Literally.
She came up with an inventive and – ahem – pretty unconventional way of making food out of her own bodily secretions – using her own vaginal yeast.
Starvi decided to live-tweet the experience. She was backed by the support of a handful of people who appeared to enjoy the photographic evidence she was providing:
Starvi highlighted in her blog that she will be periodically posting updates after the “starter” has passed the fermentation state. The feminist also stated that she was quite surprised by the level of disgust she had received. She said: “I’d expected perhaps the odd ‘eww’ and maybe even an ‘I wouldn’t eat that that,’ but not this, the level of outright horror, as though I’d dismembered a litter of puppies and was posting selfies with a selfie-stick while doing it.”
I’m all for inventive cooking and an advocate for home baking. However, I think this is a little too far and I’m not sure Mary Berry would approve.
Now try just try to keep your lunch down
