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Scientists Made Sourdough Bread With Yeast Found on Ötzi the Iceman’s Mummified Body
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Björn
Based on nothing but the thumbnail… eeeeewww gross.
punkcoderSo many comments confused, but the important part is that the yeast survived in the cold.
“Yeasts that are active at very low temperatures can offer advantages in different areas,” Sarhan says in the statement. “If fermentation is possible at room temperature or even at refrigerator temperatures, energy can be saved since no additional heating is required. Furthermore, the yeasts could also be active during transport, meaning they could contribute to fermentation already on their way to the manufacturer.”
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Haha thanks. I’ve been making an active effort to jump on threads like these where I can sense the BS.
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There’s also labgrown mammoth meat. Here’s hoping for actual dino nugget.
All chicken nuggets are dino nuggets.
Well it’s more exciting to have velociraptor nugget Velocinugget than the descendant of it.
Maybe crocodile nugget will fit more into the description.
Ironically, crocodile nuggets aren’t dino nuggets. Chicken nuggets are closer.
‘Course, if all you’re really looking for is “scary scaly monster nugget” regardless of taxonomy, by all means, croconugget away!
Hopefully it’s not spliced with frog DNA for no godly reason. I was rewatching Jurassic park last night and it really is a truly stupid plot point that absolutely could have fixed with 30 seconds worth of thought.
It actually has quite a few plot holes, we tend to gloss over them because it’s otherwise such a good movie but there are aspects that really don’t make sense, everyone tends to fixate on the third one but the first one has issues too.
I didn’t watch them, but supposedly that is brought up in Jurassic World as the reason they don’t have feathers and enables real palaeontologists to label them “not real dinosaurs”.
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…at least they determined what he died of before making his corpse bread.
Torn Apart By DogsYeah, but did it taste good? I want corpse bread but only if it’s good.
Tbf if I was a yeast scientist I too would say “fuck it” and see how far I can take bread.
I studied the field for decades it’s my right.
Once I made sourdough with discharge from my friend’s yeast infection.
Was it at bandcamp?
No it was when me and the rest of the rugby team crash landed in the Andes Mountains and we had a choice between cannibalism or eating vaginal-discharge imbued sourdough bread and we chose the bread.
Didn’t a good chunk of the survivors freeze to death? How did you proof the bread in such a cold environment?
Wait, did you already have the vaginas yeast bread when you crashed or did you have the ingredients and make it in the snowstorm?
RouthinatorWhat movie is this?
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spicy pancakelmao you know this idea started with one nerd saying “wouldn’t it be hilarious if we…”
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his yummified body*
Made me chuckle, take your upvote ^^
The iceman yummeth
Can you honestly say you wouldnt try mummy jerky?
Yes.
Yes, yes I can.
You seem gastronomically adventerous, if I mail you something to eat, how much will you pay me?
Note: Do not Google “mummy jerky”.
In unrelated news, people across the world are shitting themselves to death. Scientists still trying to assess this one.
I used to think b-rated sci-fi flicks had crappy plot hooks about how scientists would just release the world ending plot hook like that.
And then polish scientists released cannibal ants from an abandoned Soviet nuclear bunker to see what they’d do.
First, God sent the locusts. Americans voted them into office. So God came up with plan B: diarrhea.
Everyone shuts themselves to death
Someone should tell them they can buy yeast in the store.
I’ll take, “Things you can do but should never fucking do.” for $500, Alex.
One small throwaway line about how scientists made sourdough with a yeast strain from him.
I know every single headline now is click bait but this didn’t even say shit about who made the bread or how it turned out or anything whatsoever actually about scientists making bread with an ancient yeast.
But how did it taste
It couldn’t; ’twas dead.
Could we not tho
I imagine the worst outcome would be if the bread was unbelievably delicious. They can’t exactly source more of it.
Could keep the starter going though
Something something Rick and Morty pasta
Finally, some good news
Mmmm extra-sour dough
“Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.”
I can’t imagine an ancient yeast would taste much different than sourdough made from modern wheat, especially if you use the same grain the iceman had available back in his time like einkorn. You’d still end up with tangy sourdough
The point is obviously getting as close as possible to cannibalism, without actually being cannibalism.
From between the toes?
Served with his duck butter.
Getting Blue Nile vibes from this one.
And red Nile couldn’t be more disappointed
This story is old and still disgusting
Fuck it, get me some good butter I’d eat the whole loaf.