https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:2296:_Sourdough_Starter&feed=atom&action=historyTalk:2296: Sourdough Starter - Revision history2024-03-29T15:26:03ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.30.0https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:2296:_Sourdough_Starter&diff=208363&oldid=prev172.68.65.98: /* Conspiracy theories */ new section2021-03-17T14:32:07Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Conspiracy theories: </span> new section</span></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>: I wouldn't say I'm a fanatic at any level, but we do make sourdough pancakes on a semi-regular basis.  I recognize that the starter I have maintained for 20+ years has altered over time through the introduction of new strains and possibly through mutation, but it is still linked to the starter I received.  After all, I still consider myself to be me after 40+ years! I received the starter from my mother, who in turn received it from a family that received it from a family (and so on) with the claim that it traces back to the Alaska Goldrush days.  We have no way of knowing for certain if the claim is true, but since we live in Anchorage, it might actually be true.  I also like to think of all the evolutionary bottlenecks my starter has gone through - we sometimes go 6 months with it barely hanging on in the fridge, and I keep two copies running in parallel as a safety net, but I suspect lengthy periods of fridge life have definitely shaped the starter to be fridge resilient.  It gets a little funky, and I've lost one copy from time to time and had to fork from the other, but a month stretch of sustained weekly pancake making has it back in good form.  So maybe Randall's not that far off - my starter knew it was getting sketchy and called in COVID-19 to save it!  And furthermore, I forked it and sent a copy to live with a friend, so now there's more redundancy in the network!  And we're all making pancakes and smiling at the bubbly froth in the morning![[User:Tovodeverett|Tovodeverett]] ([[User talk:Tovodeverett|talk]]) 14:37, 23 April 2020 (UTC)</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>: I wouldn't say I'm a fanatic at any level, but we do make sourdough pancakes on a semi-regular basis.  I recognize that the starter I have maintained for 20+ years has altered over time through the introduction of new strains and possibly through mutation, but it is still linked to the starter I received.  After all, I still consider myself to be me after 40+ years! I received the starter from my mother, who in turn received it from a family that received it from a family (and so on) with the claim that it traces back to the Alaska Goldrush days.  We have no way of knowing for certain if the claim is true, but since we live in Anchorage, it might actually be true.  I also like to think of all the evolutionary bottlenecks my starter has gone through - we sometimes go 6 months with it barely hanging on in the fridge, and I keep two copies running in parallel as a safety net, but I suspect lengthy periods of fridge life have definitely shaped the starter to be fridge resilient.  It gets a little funky, and I've lost one copy from time to time and had to fork from the other, but a month stretch of sustained weekly pancake making has it back in good form.  So maybe Randall's not that far off - my starter knew it was getting sketchy and called in COVID-19 to save it!  And furthermore, I forked it and sent a copy to live with a friend, so now there's more redundancy in the network!  And we're all making pancakes and smiling at the bubbly froth in the morning![[User:Tovodeverett|Tovodeverett]] ([[User talk:Tovodeverett|talk]]) 14:37, 23 April 2020 (UTC)</div></td></tr>
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</table>172.68.65.98https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:2296:_Sourdough_Starter&diff=191142&oldid=prevTovodeverett at 14:37, 23 April 20202020-04-23T14:37:25Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Sourdough fanatics insist, despite solid evidence to the contrary, that the yeast strains in their carefully maintained starter material are identical to those present when their greatgreatgrandmother started the very first batch.  Stuff flies in through the window, or off your fingers, or whatever, every time the starter is exposed to air.  Whatever -- the final product still tastes great.  And after all, "Viruses HATE This One Simple Trick To Kill Them" : bake to kill off everything in the dough. [[User:Cellocgw|Cellocgw]] ([[User talk:Cellocgw|talk]]) 10:48, 22 April 2020 (UTC)</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Sourdough fanatics insist, despite solid evidence to the contrary, that the yeast strains in their carefully maintained starter material are identical to those present when their greatgreatgrandmother started the very first batch.  Stuff flies in through the window, or off your fingers, or whatever, every time the starter is exposed to air.  Whatever -- the final product still tastes great.  And after all, "Viruses HATE This One Simple Trick To Kill Them" : bake to kill off everything in the dough. [[User:Cellocgw|Cellocgw]] ([[User talk:Cellocgw|talk]]) 10:48, 22 April 2020 (UTC)</div></td></tr>
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</table>Tovodeveretthttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:2296:_Sourdough_Starter&diff=191072&oldid=prevCellocgw at 10:48, 22 April 20202020-04-22T10:48:19Z<p></p>
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</table>Cellocgwhttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:2296:_Sourdough_Starter&diff=191071&oldid=prevTier666 at 09:48, 22 April 20202020-04-22T09:48:25Z<p></p>
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</table>Tier666https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:2296:_Sourdough_Starter&diff=191054&oldid=prev108.162.215.118 at 22:42, 21 April 20202020-04-21T22:42:06Z<p></p>
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</table>108.162.215.118https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:2296:_Sourdough_Starter&diff=191053&oldid=prevHkmaly at 22:19, 21 April 20202020-04-21T22:19:47Z<p></p>
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</table>Hkmalyhttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:2296:_Sourdough_Starter&diff=191046&oldid=prevDaevin at 14:53, 21 April 20202020-04-21T14:53:24Z<p></p>
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</table>Daevinhttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:2296:_Sourdough_Starter&diff=191044&oldid=prevBarmar at 14:03, 21 April 20202020-04-21T14:03:33Z<p></p>
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</table>Barmarhttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:2296:_Sourdough_Starter&diff=191041&oldid=prev162.158.34.210 at 10:46, 21 April 20202020-04-21T10:46:36Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:With a bit of reading online, I've discovered that your definition of "theory" is but one of many different definitions of the word. In some contexts, theory is synonymous with hypothesis, according to Merriam-Webster.  [[User:Ianrbibtitlht|Ianrbibtitlht]] ([[User talk:Ianrbibtitlht|talk]]) 02:31, 21 April 2020 (UTC)</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:With a bit of reading online, I've discovered that your definition of "theory" is but one of many different definitions of the word. In some contexts, theory is synonymous with hypothesis, according to Merriam-Webster.  [[User:Ianrbibtitlht|Ianrbibtitlht]] ([[User talk:Ianrbibtitlht|talk]]) 02:31, 21 April 2020 (UTC)</div></td></tr>
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