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Originally Posted by Roland
After half an hour it got a bit funky so I asked the internet to advise me. On their advise I added a pound of flour, 25 grams of sugar, 10 grams of salt and 50 grams of butter. This only made it worse. Now I have a blob that keeps getting bigger. How do I kill this experiment? With fire? My oven does 250C.
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I recommend 45 minutes in the oven at 450 F (230 C). This is what I do when I have a yeast infection on flour, water, honey, and salt mixture; it might be less for a mixture that includes milk and butter. Put the dish with yeast infected mixture in cold oven, close the door and then set the temperature as well as your timer. Make sure your dish is not going to melt or shatter in the heat. I highly recommend cast iron.
After 40 minutes, the whole kitchen will be filled with a rather strange smell. Bear with it - this is the sign that the yeast is well dead. That's a good thing, this is what you wanted. Basically, that's the smell of the yeast decomposing corpse. Wait 5 more minutes, turn off the oven and get the yeast infected thing from the oven. Take it out of the dish onto a wooden board. Wait 5 more minutes and cut through it.
You will see a lot of holes inside the thing. Do you know what these holes are???
You won't believe it!!
These are yeast farts! Yes:
yeast farts!!! As the yeast consumes flour and water mixture, it farts all over the place! Isn't that just abhorring????