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Pyrtolin
Level 1: 10 points
Alltime Score: 80 points
Last Logged In: March 12th, 2008

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Document Growth by Pyrtolin

December 1st, 2007 7:17 PM

INSTRUCTIONS: Document something growing.

I wanted a compromise between something that grew organically (without, in this case, active agency on my part, aside from setting events in motion) and something that I could easily document in a single session. Plants are the most obvious example of the first, would require days or weeks of time to accomplish.

Bread, on the other hand, is a perfect example of intentional growth, and the process of making it is fast enough to easily meet the second requirement. Armed with a camera, bread machine, and a kitchen stocked for the task, I set forth.

(For those to whom the important details matter- the bread in question was a cinnamon-spice bread using light whole wheat flour.)

In the process, I was able to catch the yeast actively proofing around the corners of the unmixed flour both in pictures and video.

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Liquid mix.
Attempting to proof
Flour
Sub-growth
Bubbly Closeup
Sub-sub-growth
Active evidence of growth.
All corners
Mixing
Early Dough
Stepping back.
The main event
Growth
Bigger
Biggest

11 vote(s)

5

Stu

 5

Loki

 5

The Revolutionary

 5

Charlie Fish

 5

Tøm

 5

teucer

 5

Ben Yamiin

 5

Darkaardvark

 5

susy derkins

 5

Burn Unit

 5

anna one


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7 comment(s)

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posted by Loki on December 1st, 2007 10:06 PM

Thorough documentation, and I quite like the thought that went into your choice of subject.

Welcome to the game. (You've arrived right at the start of a much anticipated inter-group war, so don't worry too much about anything weird or hostile you encounter. Weird is normal around here. Hostile is not.)

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posted by The Revolutionary on December 1st, 2007 11:00 PM

Excellent work, sir. The people must have bread!

Have you ever considered capturing your own Starter?

Excellent documentation
posted by Charlie Fish on December 2nd, 2007 4:56 AM

This rocks for a first task. Welcome to the game!

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posted by Pyrtolin on December 2nd, 2007 5:21 AM

Thanks to both. I've had few false starts but now have a couple lined up that look promising.

I've seen the strains of war (in particular the call to war against my group) and am full and well ready to play it through.
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I've actually made my own once before, then ran out of time to care for it. I'm going to try again within the next month or so, but it looks like I could only get credit for it by serving in an advisory role to a Biome. I'm going to making some quarg as well for holiday baking, so I could probably assist on a cheese making task as well. (But would imagine that it would, again, be most appropriate to Biome as a mainstay)

If we can find the SF strain here in Pittsburgh, I think we'll tranced the concept of score. I'm counting more on just getting

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posted by Pyrtolin on December 2nd, 2007 5:23 AM

Thanks for giving me the full set of other groups :)

U of A or not U of A, a vote
posted by susy derkins on December 2nd, 2007 10:48 PM

For cinnamon-spice and voice documentation of those two other growth subjects, on top of the sacredness of baking as a task, and the way yeast have played a role on averting many more than one humanitarian crisis. Cheers!

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posted by Burn Unit on December 6th, 2007 10:49 AM

Kapow!
Bread vote!