A man feeding a remote Alaska town with a Costco card and a ship

Re:A man feeding a remote Alaska town with a Costco card and... by madengr on Sunday May 03, 2020 @09:32PM (#23063635)

Flour isn’t the problem now, it’s yeast. Fortunately my mother in law traded us a few packs for an old iMac, so my daughter can now make pizza dough.

Joking aside, we did give her an iMac, but you can’t find yeast anywhere.

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Re:A man feeding a remote Alaska town with a Costco card and... by dredmorbius on Monday May 04, 2020 @02:47AM (#23065228)

I'm about 2 months and a couple of dozen loaves into sourdough starter. Excellent results.

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Re:A man feeding a remote Alaska town with a Costco card and... by makeset on Monday May 04, 2020 @05:50AM (#23066166)

She can make those packs go a LONG way, given enough rising time, with superior flavor to boot. E.g. the pizza dough with poolish in Ken Forkish's book "Flour Water Salt Yeast" uses 0.4g dry yeast per 1kg of flour.

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Re:A man feeding a remote Alaska town with a Costco card and... by jefftk on Sunday May 03, 2020 @10:56PM (#23064110)

I've been buying instant yeast at a restaurant supply store for $5/lb, decanting into 8oz Mason jars, and selling it to neighbors. Something like 5lb so far.

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Re:A man feeding a remote Alaska town with a Costco card and... by unexpected on Sunday May 03, 2020 @09:48PM (#23063742)

if you have enough flour, we got around this problem by making a sourdough starter.

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