The Help tag is just because there really isn’t a more fitting tag, I don’t exactly need help, I’m just mad ahhh 😭I had it on top of the refrigerator and it got pushed to the edge, so that when I opened the fridge door it fell ☹️ It literally bounced once because of the plastic lid I think and for a split second I thought I could catch it but the next thing I knew it was shattered on the floor
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Nnnoooo, I would be tempted to try to save it too, but it’s not worth the risk. Did you share your start with any friends? Maybe they can share back? I’m so sorry!
No no no no no. Is that glass? Absolutely not. Even if that’s just plastic, absolutely not too. I’m sorry but you can’t do this.
Hey, edit here. There are some people recommending strategies to salvage it, do NOT do that. It’s fucking glass. It’s ridiculous that anyone is suggesting that you try and strain out the glass. This is dangerous to play around with. You need to start over.
No reason not to keep the starter going. One way to make sure you don’t get glass in your baking would be to take a bit of it and water it down a lot. If there’s any glass in the bit you took, it’ll sink to the bottom. Then pour off the watery starter mix and add flour, then bake with that tomorrow or whatever. If you’re super paranoid you could run it through a strainer.
Sry u can’t risk it 😔
Sorry for your loss! A few years ago I was all prepped and excited to try a garlic cheese loaf and my starter dropped out of my hands. Still haven’t gotten back to making that loaf. 😬
I’m gonna get downvoted but i would absolutely dilute it and then strain it😭 i cannot fathom starting over lol
eating bits of glass does sound horrific though
Ever seen what even small, almost imperceptible shards of glass can do to the inside of a human body?
Also, this is why I keep my starter in a plastic deli container.
Maybe there’s a little left on the lid (far enough from any of the glass pieces) that can be scraped off and used to bring her back?
Let her go! Maybe someone here has a bit of dehydrated starter they can mail you if you dislike the store-bought ones.
got a discard jar?
Unpopular opinion and just because I’m stupid but I’d totally try to salvage that. If it were me, not trying to persuade you.
😭 It’s already happened to me, I’m very angry.
Water it down. Push it through a filter coffee machine.
You’re welcome 😌
Pop some in a sieve and dilute it down to infect the water and transfer it over
I mean don’t BAKE with that but do keep the starter going. Mix a bit with some water, pour through a coffee filter. Then feed what drops through with just flour. Should be fine.
I’ve read up on this before and it appears that microscopic bits of glass are not going to harm you, bigger sharp bits are the problem. But I’m not a doctor, that’s just what I think from trying to find info on this before.
If you’re worried about it and not going to be able to eat your bread from worry then don’t save it.
If you are a bit more comfortable, try feeding, discarding, feeding a few times and by the time you bake it’s so dilute it would be statistically impossible there’s anything in your food.
Think about how painful and damaging a tiny shard of glass would be in your eye. Ingesting it would be just as bad or worse.
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RIP friendly starter. I bet you would have made great loaves.
dilutein water, put it in a cheese cloth and add flour to whatever drips from the cloth. Use a coffee filter as well if you want to be extra careful.
Do you all not keep backups?
I pull out a bit once a month and feed it
Derren Brown ate glass on stage and was alright so it should be fine. I’d be a bit worried about the dust in it, though
You should have salvaged it and told noone. Does a falling tree make a sound when it falls and noone arround? We don’t know.
But now, that you put it for all to see, you open the door for litigation in case your mean boss or mother in law chokes on a tiny piece of glass.
Indeed, its too late to salvage now, that you told Everyone about it.
I mean, you only need a bit of the liquid to get enough to re-colonize new flour and water, but yeah it is glass and you can get a new starter going pretty quickly. But I suspect you could even like poke the side that is exposed and stir it around in water that you then add flour to and it would probably jump start a new one.
I keep mine in a takeout soup container
If you have some discard you can make another starter with it.
Def don’t bake with this particular starter.
Dissolve a small amount in water, filter through cheese cloth and feed it. Repeat the dissolve, filter, feed process 3-4 more times over the course of the week.
Or to be safe, just chuck it and buy a new starter from KA
The medical bills aren’t worth it!!
You can definitely use this but not the actual starter part.
Take a piece of the starter. Mix it with water and filter it through a coffee filter ( use 2 filters if it makes you feel better) . Use the water that filtered through and add flour to it. Within few hours you have a fresh batch of active starter.
Yea no. You really don’t want to ingest broken glass. It can kill you and cut up your intestines or stomach which can lead to sepsis and death. It doesn’t dissolve in your stomach acid.
Edit: I was gonna suggest a way to save it but yea everyone’s right. Glass can splinter into really tiny shards it’s just not worth the risk at all.
Got any discard left? Got anything proofing right now? Got any bits left on your whisk or spatula, or bottom of a bowl? All those can get you back in the game!
If you insist on baking it, I’d look for a subreddit that focuses on removing small shards of glass from your gullet.
You could’ve took some off the top and added it to a fresh mixture. Will be like new by tomorrow
this is my worst fear. I would a million percent salvage what I could 😆
Oof. Had it been a plastic jar going splat, I would’ve told you to scoop some off the top and continue the culture! However, this here is free glass in your bread, so please DON’T.
I will dehydrate some of mine and send it to you if you’d like!!