How much leaven?

[YYZ Skinhead]

(01-30-2010 11:27 AM)Scotchman Wrote:  

(01-30-2010 01:17 AM)Rose of Shushan Wrote:  I never cut off rotting bits of a food and consume the rest.I throw it away.If a food is rotting then the rest of the food is also contaminated by that point.Not safe,throw it away! Like with contaminated doctrines

OK it depends. A better analogy then is why we wash out fruits and veggies (you do don't you? :biggrin To cleans the corruption of of it. We are removing the impurities (ie E.coli) and leaving the rest (your food).

Ever had a loaf off bread with mold on one corner? Cut off the Corner with a good amount of extra and eat the rest. I know many who do this.

That isn't a healthy thing to do. Visible bread mold has already spread its invisible hyphae (fungal "roots") throughout the loaf. If you can see mold on one slice of bread, the mold has established an invisible colony in the rest of the loaf.

I brew beer, which is liquid bread, and around a cup (8 fluid ounces) of yeast in water (leaven) will ferment 15 gallons (1,920 fluid ounces) of malt/water solution into beer.