Dual Purpose Smoker

[classicrockgriller]

SmokinSoon showed me how to take the Bread starter and de-hydrate it and

later re-hydrate it after it is shipped to a new Home.

I don't have a variable temp dehydrator, but I do have a Big smoker with a

PID and a draft Fan.

Took off the smoke gen so I could get a good draft.



Set the PID to 95* and turned on the draft fan.



Put in 8 trays of spread out starter, 1/2 cup on each tray.



Bread starter potato chips. ;D



Took about 24 hrs to dry out 4 cups.

[SoCalBuilder]

I don't know squat about bread starters, but I take it that depriving it of water didn't kill whatever is 'alive' in a starter?

[classicrockgriller]

I don't know squat about bread starters, but I take it that depriving it of water didn't kill whatever is 'alive' in a starter?

Nope, it puts it in a suspended state.

Once you add back the water and a feeding to it, it starts growing again.

The key to it is keeping it under 105* while dehydrating it.

Heat kills yeast. The cold retards the growth but doesn't kill it.

[OU812]

SWEET!

It took 24 hr to do 3 cups in my dehydrator also, had 2 temp probes inside and the temp never got above 98 F

Any smoke flavor or smell stick to the starter?

[classicrockgriller]

SWEET!

It took 24 hr to do 3 cups in my dehydrator also, had 2 temp probes inside and the temp never got above 98 F

Any smoke flavor or smell stick to the starter?

Letting it air out right now and just added 4 more cups (8) trays back to the

mega de-hydrator for another round. Had 12 cups of starter in the fridge.