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Anyone want to trade dried sourdough starter?

Donna322's picture
Donna322

Anyone want to trade dried sourdough starter?

I thought it might be interesting to try different starters from different parts of the country or world. I am in upstate NY in the Lake George region.  Anyone interested in doing this?

Donna

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bakinginQuito

...But at sourdough.com some users had the same idea and if you're lucky you could be finding traders in near your own area, maybe with no need to send the starter by mail...here you are the link: sourdough.com/search/node/trading starters....I would also.be interested if you wish to get a sourdough from Quito...Let me know! Paolo

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yy

before you go through the trouble of exchanging dried starters, take a look at the topic of discussion in the link below:

http://www.thefreshloaf.com/node/19139/can-starter-be-taken-over-local-mircoorganisms

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Donna322

The cost of a postage stamp is no trouble. Even if the starters eventually take on the characteristics of my own it may prove interesting to taste test a few initially to taste the difference. Look at all the places that "sell" starters for crazy money just to play into the "hundreds of years old" claim....  Its all in good fun here..