How to Make Yeast From Scratch (DIY) with a Potato

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[Sorchia]

My Great Nana taught me this when I was a wee lass. We’re Irish, we can do anything with potatoes! 🍀🍀🍀🍀

[dirtisbetterthandiamonds]

I have an Amish baking background and had one batch of captured yeast for almost 20 years. We treated it like a pet..feed, water, aerate Lol.

[janeteholmes]

As a mycologist said last year when people were complaining about the yeast shortage on Twitter, “There is NEVER a shortage of yeast!”.

[sorinankitt]

You're right. Yeast does not survive well in chlorinated water. But, a rolling boil of tap water for 15 minutes releases all the chlorine. Do that then put in the potatoes. You can also leave water open for 24 hours and the chlorine evaporates from the water. Chlorine in tap water is actually in gas form and dissipates into the atmosphere easily.

[EKA-jf]

The comments on this bread are absolutely the best I have seen. Thanks for sharing, everybody.

[leifforrest]

If dough is too sticky, do not keep adding flour. Develop the gluten and it will become less sticky, adding flour will make the bread dense. There are two ways to develop gluten, kneading and time.

[ScOOrK_]

You do not need potato - same effect you can achieve by using flour. Also - you do not need to close it/espouse so many times. You can just cover jar with cloth (best will be medical or cheese) folded couple times over and use rubber band to sealed it.
When putting bread in to pan, fold it down and pinch below to crate smooth surface. Before placing in to oven make a little slash with knife to create crack trough the middle of a loaf (or it will crack it self).
Last 10 min before taking out from oven, you can spray loaf with some water (only a couple drops - you can use fingers to do it) to create nice and crispy skin.
If you are using milk in recipe - your bread will a little sweet and soft (great for jam, pb, jelly and all sweat creams), but if you will use water instead you will have nice bread ideal for meats and bbq. You can also buy in store - just look for Polish Bread xD
Apologies for all mistakes i did - English is not my native language.

[sillililli]

My grandmother who, smoked a cob pipe, was a tremendous gardener, who planted by the phases of the moon, would use hops for her bread starter.

[Bill-wztw]

You can also get wild yeast with nothing but flour and water in a bowl set on top of your refrigerator but you need to cover it with cheese cloth to keep the dirt out and check it for mold if it starts to mold you can scrap the mold off of it and carry on until you have your sour dough starter once you have it you can store it in a jar in your refrigerator and when you use some just feed it some more flour and water so you never run out of the live wild yeast strain. Interestingly every location in the world has its own variety of wild yeast and it effects the flavor of what you make with it also.Also do not use clear glass jars to start your yeast if they are gonna get exposed to sun light it will kill your yeast that is why when you buy yeast in the store it is in dark glass jars.

[vincentconti-jbhd]

My nana always made her own bread! Nothing like warm fresh bread and butter!
I miss my nana!

[ericawatters]

We’ve had Fred (our yeast colony) for years. He’s very hard to kill from neglect - and I should know, I’ve forgotten to feed him for months in the fridge, and while he’s starving, never dead. And the more “active” you are in baking with yeast, the easier it is to make a starter. I haven’t done the potato method though. Fred might need a sibling. I don’t bake much anymore because of dietary restrictions but potato instead of wheat opens up options for me.

[billhayward]

Prepping shows should be more like this episode. Getting tired of Bug out Bags talks. How about an episode on preparing Zombie steaks. Keep up the good work.

[klong]

Loving these videos. I have bought myself some notebooks and have been writing down every step in my books just in case I need these skills and the internet is no longer available. Learning a lot about wild plants for food and medicine and buying real books rather than relying on videos alone.

[psr]

What a lovely calm reassuring voice. His "That's Ok" is brimming with confidence. Thx

[StormsRadiosCats]

Home baked bread no matter how you make it is 100% better than that garbage you get in the store. Does anyone else taste that bitterness in todays store bought bread? I can't stand it, i make my own and avoid that bitter after taste. Another great and informative video. Thanks for all you do.

[carollizc]

This looks doable. The best starter I ever made was based on leftover oatmeal. It made such wonderfully flavoured bread. However, potatoes give bread such a great taste and soft texture that this is worth trying, just for those properties. Great bread should be seen as a celebration, not merely a survival food.

[mt]

Consider using brown sugar in place of white sugar. Molasses makes a superior starting solution.

[TombstoneHeart]

This reminds me so much of a yeast recipe I read of when I was kid living on an outback sheep station ( ranch ) here in the Great Southern Land way back in the early 1960's. Back in the days before there was much of a railway network and no road trains and precious few roads either, it was common to walk livestock over vast distances to markets or on agistment. Drovers' cooks had to be a very inventive lot back then. The yeast recipe I read of involved using the water the potatoes were boiled in the previous night. Some of it would be poured into a bottle and, ( I'm guessing now ), some sugar was added, a stopper put in the bottle and it was left to do it's thing. That's about all I can remember of the process, because...well...it was over 60 years ago that I read of this! Nevertheless, I'm sure this would work if all of the other steps in the video are followed.

Maybe it was something like this that set off me on the path of wondering what else we can use in the kitchen that would normally be thrown out in the garbage. After a lot of reading and researching, I can give you this tip - we throw out a lot that that can used in other ways. From what I've read, at a pinch, this sort of yeast could even be used to brew beer! I bet that got your attention! lol

[MrBilld]

The best sourdough bread I've ever had, was made from yeast I cultured myself. Spelt flour makes awesome sourdough and you can culture the yeast right from the flour itself and then bake it into a wheat loaf, spelt loaf, or whatever bread you like.

[nonishearer]

I had this recipe and it was called Alaska Sourdough Starter. I loved it. It must be fed and I was hospitalized and away from home for 3 months. I used it for all kinds of baking recipes. Thank you for sharing it. You mad e my day.