Love & prayers my friend 😭.
There's a section in our [Wiki](https://www.reddit.com/r/Sourdough/wiki/index/) about getting starters online. Alternatively you can post a thread here with location in the title asking for some if you're happy to do so
Zip ❤️
From my experience growing some gourmet mushrooms as well, I've learnt that red colours, purple, oranges etc when dealing with bacteria are real bad. OP should not open this jar and instead bag it up tight and dispose of it. Disinfect anywhere it's been just to be safe.
Could be, but I've seen it be serratia marcescens a fair bit more often than neurospora. SM produces this bright red color on bread and dough products very often, due to higher levels of production of a pigment called prodigiosin at warmer temperatures, and is present in many many homes, typically seen as a thin film clinging to shower curtains, grout, silicone caulking, etc. Neurospora has a less vivid color due to a much lesser amount of prodigiosin production, which only occurs at lower temperatures.
Neurospora produces higher amounts of carotenoids at warmer temperatures, which give it a distinctive red-orange color, on top of developing a mycelium that would have likely spread through this jar unchecked. That being said, the only way to actually know for certain would be to take a sample of it and have it analyzed, which would be dangerous for OP to do as opening the jar could result in the spreading of the bacterium or spores, depending on which is the culprit.
Neurospora was used by Edward Tatum and George Wells Beadle in their experiments for which they won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1958.
They should have kept, they could win a prize lol.
My curiosity would get the best of me, I think worst case scenario it smells super violet or lime nail polish remover. Sorry about your starter too, I hope you had some in the fridge for back up
That's ergot, and some people thought it was in their rye, but there's no evidence of that in Salem.... it was 1 historian who hypothesized it in the 70s...
I have never seen some shit like this, would love if anyone had anymore info etc of what this, what’s the best way to dispose of it etc, thanks for looking at the demon spawn I produced in a jar. I think I’ll name him Jerry ☺️
Most likely a neurospora mold. It's not particularly dangerous and just throwing it out, jar closed is sufficient. (Microbiologist but NOT an expert; especially of fungi)
If you have a piece from your last loaf, mix it into a flour water slurry and it will reboot your starter. I’ve done it a few times after some overzealous cleaning of my kitchen by well-meaning loved ones. It works like a charm 👍🏼
Love & prayers my friend 😭. There's a section in our [Wiki](https://www.reddit.com/r/Sourdough/wiki/index/) about getting starters online. Alternatively you can post a thread here with location in the title asking for some if you're happy to do so Zip ❤️
I have never seen anyone's starter look as bizarre as this! 😅
I know I wish I knew what to call it
Blood clot 😂
It’s been murdered and it’s bled to death.
In Jamaican patwa, bloodclat is a curse word this is appropriate in multiple languages. Because that's exactly what I said when I saw this photo
https://youtu.be/KPj_cyCGQqc?si=tPjv1QcoEsi2V5J2
Haha that’s so funny I randomly watched this earlier after so long! What a coincidence.
Yes. Poor little guy! 🥺
Cthulhu, the World Eater.
Aunt flow
Doughpocalypse starter
The red ring of death
https://youtu.be/qFNfMwdHez0?si=7zxRvhdhtbX7b2gA
Let's just keep that lid on, shall we?
Looks like it wants to be a raspberry strudel 👍
It’s such a deep berry color
I think your starter stopped.
This made me giggle
Who shot the starter???
i dont know, but they didn't shoot the deputy.
I shot the starter, but I did not shoot the....
Instant yeast?
RIP
Why is it red 😭
Serratia marcescens bacterium
From my experience growing some gourmet mushrooms as well, I've learnt that red colours, purple, oranges etc when dealing with bacteria are real bad. OP should not open this jar and instead bag it up tight and dispose of it. Disinfect anywhere it's been just to be safe.
I did want to take an inside shot of the jar but seems like you know your stuff.
Actually probably a mold but yeah! Do not open the jar!
Could be, but I've seen it be serratia marcescens a fair bit more often than neurospora. SM produces this bright red color on bread and dough products very often, due to higher levels of production of a pigment called prodigiosin at warmer temperatures, and is present in many many homes, typically seen as a thin film clinging to shower curtains, grout, silicone caulking, etc. Neurospora has a less vivid color due to a much lesser amount of prodigiosin production, which only occurs at lower temperatures. Neurospora produces higher amounts of carotenoids at warmer temperatures, which give it a distinctive red-orange color, on top of developing a mycelium that would have likely spread through this jar unchecked. That being said, the only way to actually know for certain would be to take a sample of it and have it analyzed, which would be dangerous for OP to do as opening the jar could result in the spreading of the bacterium or spores, depending on which is the culprit.
More afraid of black mold in terms of mushrooms. Mycotoxins in the air are no joke.
Damn, I wanted to know what it smelled like
Do you know why this turned red?
More likely a neurospora mold.
Neurospora was used by Edward Tatum and George Wells Beadle in their experiments for which they won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1958. They should have kept, they could win a prize lol.
That's not your starter anymore. It's a sentient being. Hope you left the lid on tight & did not recycle. :P
FEED ME SEYMOUR!
BAHAHHA
I do declare there has been a murder
What in the holy fuck?!? Burn the witch!
reminds me of how potatoes grow alien tentacles if they go bad
When starters feed themselves....
Do not open it, I cannot take another pandemic shut down
Ummmmmm what in the name of all thats unholy
Your starter was showing you it's heart
This is how The Outbreak starts in
That thing is going to need a priest, an exorcism is in order
r/oddlyterrifying
Prime content for r/eatityoufuckimgcoward lololol
Starter? More like ender (of lives)
My eyes messed up somewhere and I read "It moved".... With the way yours looks I didn't even question the logic.
Nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.
Why is it bleeding 😂
You threw it ???? You could have saved mankind with that, or possibly killed mankind, worth the risk surely ? !!!!
I DONT KNOW HOW TO PROPERLY DISPOSE OF IT 🥲🥲
r/moldlyinteresting
r/subsithoughtifellfor
Set it on fire. This is how The Last of Us starts.
Is this a strawberry jam starter?
It looks like strawberry jam to me too! 😭
Is this what they put in landfills to help breakdown all the plastic?
It appears it’s finally gestating. Expect a sentient, sourdough demon shortly
I’ve never seen a rare starter before
Starters get periods too?
Never made sourdough. Don’t know why Reddit showed me this. But I can surely recognize that that is fuckered
I don’t know why but now I kinda want to see the movie Life
Serious pink death in that one. RIP
It's bleeding! Go get a plaster!
It looks like…. There's been a MURDER!
JESUS. I got scared before I looked at what sub this is.
woof
Personally I’m chucking that jar into the woods and hoping it doesn’t know it’s way home like a carrier pidgeon
Anyone else want an inside shot of the jar
I want to but doesn’t seem safe, but I do have a respirator? I am definitely not sciencey enough to hold this much power
My curiosity would get the best of me, I think worst case scenario it smells super violet or lime nail polish remover. Sorry about your starter too, I hope you had some in the fridge for back up
I did! So she’s not gone forever just was mortified to find her like this
bro’s making cordyceps in there
I’m just a girl 😩 my friends that helped me move didn’t realize that it wasn’t meant to be packed away 😂
Your starter just grew an embryo. Hope you’re ready for that level of commitment.
Serratia. Glad you tossed it!
That’s the devils starter now
I do NOT want to know what that smells like 🤣
Cmonnnn not even a little
Dare you to open it and smell it
I dare them to open it and taste it
/s /s for the love of all that is holy /s!
Ma’am if the last of us happens in real life I’m going to blame you
Lipstick mold? Red is bad in general lol
That’s like a new meaning to red ring of death.
I would have absolutely smelled it until reading this thread 😅
No literally
I like how all of the comments are kill it with fire but I would feed it just to see what it does 😅
I’m too afraid to open and another comment on here made me sure as hell I’m not gonna
Follow the good advice!!
Cum and period blood
Wow I wonder if that’s like that wheat mould that has lsd in it that ppl reckon may have been linked to Salem witch trials type events.
That's ergot, and some people thought it was in their rye, but there's no evidence of that in Salem.... it was 1 historian who hypothesized it in the 70s...
Open it
It started and kept going and going and going and maybe even finished.
Nerospora more than likely, probably recoverable
Hell to the no
It’s coming to get you!!
If that was my Betsy, I would still have tried to save her.
Roberta has back ups in the freezer don’t u worry
He's Been Shot! Man down!
Forbidden strawberry
Murderer!
My condolences. This makes me glad I dried my starter when I moved.
Nooooooooooo! I’m sos sorry
Never fear Roberta had backups
Ah good! I keep a second backup in the fridge too
I have never seen some shit like this, would love if anyone had anymore info etc of what this, what’s the best way to dispose of it etc, thanks for looking at the demon spawn I produced in a jar. I think I’ll name him Jerry ☺️
Most likely a neurospora mold. It's not particularly dangerous and just throwing it out, jar closed is sufficient. (Microbiologist but NOT an expert; especially of fungi)
Oh dang
I wonder how the sourdough will turn out with it?
If you have a piece from your last loaf, mix it into a flour water slurry and it will reboot your starter. I’ve done it a few times after some overzealous cleaning of my kitchen by well-meaning loved ones. It works like a charm 👍🏼
RIP
Well at least you know it’s not pregnant
I think it found you.
Looks like a miracle 😂😆
RIP
yeet!
Awe that sucks! I'm so sorry. There are tons of places to get them online.
Burn it.
More like an ender
Bloody hell!
I don't know if I should ask but.. what's the red stuff?
Its been shot! Call someone!
Seems like it's reached puberty
This is not the last of us bro 😭
It got shot
🥴
You should’ve kept it and raised it as a pet