(This is apparently pretty much how it goes with sourdough. You have to spend a few days ‘feeding’ the yeast with flour and water – the fact that it’s bubbly indicates that it’s working – and then in a few days it’ll be ready to bake.)

As Stavvers has explained on her blog, she’s making this bread purely from her own curiosity, but some of her twitter followers have not handled her experiment very well:

As Stavvers said:

“So, it seems to have generated rather a lot of disgust. Far more than I expected, to be perfectly honest: Id expected perhaps the odd eww and maybe even an I wouldnt eat that that, but not this, the level of outright horror, as though Id dismembered a litter of puppiesand was posting selfies with a selfie-stick while doing it.”

Cooking the bread will kill off any bacteria that may have accompanied the yeast, so eatingit shouldn’t cause any harm. Andit’s not like this is the first time somebody has cooked using her own ingredients…

AnMD/PhD student at the University of Wisconsin once cultured yoghurt using her vaginal juices, which apparently tasted ‘sour, tangy, and almost tingly on the tongue’, and artistChristina Agapakis made cheese using bacteria from the human body.

When life gives you lemons…

You can check out Stavvers blog ‘Another Angry Woman’ here, or follow her on Twitter.

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