TangoHotel
Well-Known Member
I thought I would be the first one to blow a bottle up due to fermentation. Oddly enough my wife beat me to the punch.
After 20 + batches, I have been very successful in controlling my bottle bombs. I have had exactly 0.
Mt wife's friend stops by with a mason jar of sourdough yeast starter. The directions said fill on Thursday with "x" amount of sugar, cap, and wait 12 hours. After 12 hours, pitch the yeast into the dough and cook into bread. Sounds easy enough...
She adds the exact amount of sugar and capped the mason jar. She followed the directions as they are written. She let it sit out for a few hours and went about her day.
As we were about to leave for a party, I notice the lid was a little bulgy. I questioned the wife. She said thst she read the directions and followed to a "t." As we leave, she calls her friend to ask her if we should degas it. She laughed and told her rdwahahb. "It will be fine," she says. SWMBO calls her mom, who is watching the kids, and reassures her that everything is fine.
Fast forward 6 hours: We are in the car returning from the party. The phone rings. SWMBO answers. It is her mom, calling and frantically yelling about how there's glass everywhere. We get back home to the smell of yeast and potatoes. The sourdough starter had exploded like a grenade in the kitchen, sending shards of glass shrapnel and potato chunks covered in sourdough yeast all over the bottom level of the kitchen. Thankfully the kids were sleeping upstairs when this happened.
We arrived home at 10:30. We stopped cleaning at 2 am. I couldn't help but throw in my digs about how I thought that my experiments in fermentation would have been the cause of some explosion, but she beat me to it. Needless to say, her sourdough hobby was abruptly cut short. I was the one who pulled the plug. I think I now have some bargaining chips when it comes to brewing decisions.
Did I just achieve status of HWMBO? Awesome!
After 20 + batches, I have been very successful in controlling my bottle bombs. I have had exactly 0.
Mt wife's friend stops by with a mason jar of sourdough yeast starter. The directions said fill on Thursday with "x" amount of sugar, cap, and wait 12 hours. After 12 hours, pitch the yeast into the dough and cook into bread. Sounds easy enough...
She adds the exact amount of sugar and capped the mason jar. She followed the directions as they are written. She let it sit out for a few hours and went about her day.
As we were about to leave for a party, I notice the lid was a little bulgy. I questioned the wife. She said thst she read the directions and followed to a "t." As we leave, she calls her friend to ask her if we should degas it. She laughed and told her rdwahahb. "It will be fine," she says. SWMBO calls her mom, who is watching the kids, and reassures her that everything is fine.
Fast forward 6 hours: We are in the car returning from the party. The phone rings. SWMBO answers. It is her mom, calling and frantically yelling about how there's glass everywhere. We get back home to the smell of yeast and potatoes. The sourdough starter had exploded like a grenade in the kitchen, sending shards of glass shrapnel and potato chunks covered in sourdough yeast all over the bottom level of the kitchen. Thankfully the kids were sleeping upstairs when this happened.
We arrived home at 10:30. We stopped cleaning at 2 am. I couldn't help but throw in my digs about how I thought that my experiments in fermentation would have been the cause of some explosion, but she beat me to it. Needless to say, her sourdough hobby was abruptly cut short. I was the one who pulled the plug. I think I now have some bargaining chips when it comes to brewing decisions.
Did I just achieve status of HWMBO? Awesome!
