Let’s Just Bake Bread With This 4,500-Year-Old Egyptian Yeast (6 pics)

Posted in PICTURES       13 Aug 2019       3162       3 GALLERY VIEW

Now, the cook in question is kind of bizarre: Seamus Blackley. He started as a video game designer who helped create the original Xbox video game system for Microsoft. In other words, he’s a very smart man with weird connections who collected the yeast from Ancient Egyptian pottery.

The process of actually gathering and growing the ancient yeast is incredibly complicated. It’s a process that took a week, but once he had the yeast… Well, when in Rome:

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Now, even Blackley has pointed out that the yeast probably isn’t 100% pure yet. This was more of a test run to see if they could even harvest an ancient yeast strain and make something out of it.



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Faster 5 year s ago
I just scrolled through and read a story on baking bread with ancient yeast, and you leave out the end and what it tasted like?
So disappointing.
       
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CookieDevourer 5 year s ago
no one survived to tell how it tasted
       
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Treasure 5 year s ago
Wow! Lazy much? Just google it and you can find the story and video, but if that is just too much effort here is the story: https://www.eater.com/2019/8/8/20792134/interview-seamus-blackley-serena-love-ri
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