Benito's blog

My starter John Dough has been revived from the dried frozen starter I had.  For those who haven’t yet dried some backup starter, I would highly recommend doing so.

Unfortunately John Dough my trusty starter of many years has a fatal infection.  Finally returning home after 3 months away, I found grey mold on top and some orangey discolouration.  That orange mold is said to be quite dangerous so I tossed the whole thing.  Fortunately, I had dried him over the past 2 years and kept the dried flakes of starter in ziplock bags in the freezer.