January 3, 2016 - 11:02am
Yeasts....
Ok, before you read any further, be forewarned, the following is somewhat gross.
Ok, you've been warned....
Let me start by saying I'm a vet. In dogs, ear infections are most commonly caused by a yeast. (Malessesia pachydermatitis). The running 'joke' we give to clients is that 'he's baking bread in his ears'.
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This got me wondering.....could you actually get bread to rise using Malessesia yeasts from a dog's ear? Anyone tried it? Wonder what it tasted like? You'd of course need to confirm that you actually had malessesia when you were done, and weren't 'contaminated' with something else.
Other than 'ewwww gross'.... Any thoughts?
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could do it since you have access to this yeast.
Yeast are a type of fungi that "eat" many things. Bread yeast (commercial and wild such as sourdough) consume sugar and basically excrete carbon dioxide and alcohol. Different yeast thrive in many different environments, including human body orifices, and consume many different organic compounds. Unless you are making bread out of dog ear secretions, you'll not have any success with Malessesia. That said, however there are so many wild yeast floating around the environment that you can probably culture some strain of sugar consuming yeast from any surface you test.
That was a bit like a car crash - you know you shouldn't look, but despite the warnings you just have to... I just wish I hadn't. Ewwwh. Lol.
DBM, Has our veterinarian TFL member has revealed Lucy's baking secret? : )