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How to make your original yeast water

So are you interested?

Let me explain how to cultivte natural yeast☆.

Fruits, vegetables and all other things in natural settings have

yeast around their surface.

You can separate those yeast by simply soaking them into water

for several days.

Originally commercial yeast (Saf, fermipan or allstar....) were

cultivated in a same way and strong yeast cells were separated

and cultivated for stable fermentation (rise).

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WHAT YOU NEED

`a clean glass jar ( I use 24oz apple sauce jar from Trader Joe's)

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`clean water (purified or bottoled water, tap water ok, don't use

alkaline water)

`organic raisin (almost any kind of dry fruits work but raisin's

yeast is strong, I prefer green raisin)

1. Put a hand ful of raisin in the jar. (*about 3-4 tablespoonful.

when you put more fruits it will be done sooner)

2. pour water to fill 80% of the jar.

3. loosely close the jar.

4. leave it at room temperature.

5. wait for few days until small bubbles sufface and smells like

wine.

(almost all raisins should be floating by this time)

(It would be d0ne in about 3 days in summer, 6-7dasy in winter.)

If you don't have enough amount of one kind of dry fruit, you

can mix several kinds such as raisin, apricot, apple or cranberry.

6. once it's done, store it in refrigerator.

Now you have your own natural yeast water for baking!

**ADDING 1-2TBSP "SUGAR" OR "HONEY" TO YOUR JAR

MAKES YOUR YEAST WATER FERMENT FASTER AND LEAD TO

BETTER RESULT. (YOU CAN GET 'STRONGER' YEAST WATER)

♪　Bake at your own risk　♪

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Boaz said...

Absolutely fascinating! Keep posting more about this.

I am now making my very own first yeast water... Wish me

luck!

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Amy said...

Ok, I just found your blog and am totally new to this. I am

living in Korea and they basically don't bake here at all so

my only option is to use my toaster oven/make my own

yeast.

Does it have to be dried fruits? I guess I don't understand

the process but there's tons of fresh produce here as well

as raisins. Does it have to be a glass jar? I have a plastic

peanut butter one.

Amazing! Great blog!

NOVEMBER 8, 2008 5:36 PM

Michael said...

This is very helpful. I am wondering about the amount of

water I would use if my recipe called for 1T dry active

yeast.

MAY 25, 2009 3:03 PM

wao said...

Hi!

I use preferment for baking so please refer the recipe ↓↓

http://originalyeast.blogspot.com/2008/02/how-to-

bake-bread-with-your-own-yeast-1.html

Ciao!

MAY 28, 2009 8:56 PM

Nico S said...

Extremely interesting and well done!

I have a question: does this "yeast" contain only baker's

yeast (saccaromisiae cerevisiae) or some other kind of

creatures such as lactobacilli?

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009 3:41 PM

amy said...

my husband is currently sailing from Rio to Cape Town, a

trip which will take 3 weeks. They managed to stock up on

everything they need to make bread except the yeast. I'm

emailing this recipe to him so they can try to 'grow thier


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own' - thanks so much for you clear instructions!


wao said...

hi, nico

ummmm.I'm not sure what kind of bacterias are in the

yeast water...

sorry about that...


wao said...

Hi, Amy.

Is your husband on the sea now?

It's so cool and exciting!

I hope he is able to get success from this recepi.


Nailgun said...

Hi Wao!

You seem like such an amazing baker. I only recently

came on to your site trying to learn more about wild yeast

and how the process works.

I notice that in this post you only mention how to get a

yeast water / yeast starter from dried fruit, but I notice

that some of the waters you use are from things like

tomatoes and applecores. It would be great if you could

update the "are you lost"-section to include the methods

you use for doing yeast water from pits, and fruits which

are not dried.

I saw one here:

http://originalyeast.blogspot.com/search?updated-

max=2009-03-17T07%3A13%3A00-07%3A00&

max-results=7

but am not sure that's the only one you have; it's hard to

find everything amongst all the posts you've made, some

of which just include photos, and others that have full

recipes, and others just notes.


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I'd love to hear back for more details or tips on how to get

a good strong yeast from different parts of fruits which

are not dried.

I think I am going to try starting with organic banana

peel tonight with a bit of propolis honey. I think I'm also

going to try some from kiwi-skins from today. Do you

think either of those could work?

Thanks Wao.


wao said...

Hi.

I have not made a page to show you how to make yeast

water from fresh fruits but you can see some instruction

here↓↓

http://originalyeast.blogspot.com/2009/03/new-apple-

yeast-water.html

Basic method is same as using dried fruits.

You need clea jar, water and fruits(and sugar). Mix water

and fruits together in a jar.

**You are now making kiwi yeast watar? Kiwi has

'actinidin' that breaks protein so it is not good to make

bread because flour contains lots of protein.

But don't get disappointed!

Once you get the yeast water, you can use it for cooking.

Since the yeast water breaks protein, it can make meat

tender. (like pineapple in hamburger ^_^!)

So soak the meat in the yeast water for 1 hour and grill it.

you can get tender meat!

Or, if it is sweet, you can just drin k it for your health.

Banana yeast gives you good bread.

good luck

NOVEMBER 8, 2009 9:29 AM

daddygodknittedme said...

Wao, in your last post you said that Kiwi water would not


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work for bread because "Kiwi has 'actinidin' that breaks

protein so it is not good to make bread because flour

contains lots of protein."

But I saw on a wonderful cooking show called "Cook's

County Tv" by Cook's Illustrated that for breads like

Cinnabuns, that they use cornstarch to break down the

protiens in the break so that they bread is fluffier!

So I think that Kiwi water might be a good thing if you

want fluffy bread, but I am not an expert baker.

What do you think?

MARCH 10, 2010 8:46 PM

wao said...

hi, daddygotknittedme.

Adding cornstarch breaks down protein...I think that

method makes the flour weaker (because corn starch

barely contains protein) so the bread gets fluffier.

Lots of protein in flour yield to strong gluten which tends

to make chewier bread.(though not always)

I guess the phrase "break down" means several ways.

When using kiwi(, pineapple or papaya) for baking, the

actinidin(, bromelain or papain) melt the dough

down.really sticky and sometimes almost impossible to

handle.

I guess in the show that you watched used the phrase

"break down" as if the starch make friends with gluten

and gluten's tight friendship breaks down....

ummm.....holding hands like

gluten-starch-gluten-starch-gluten...so the gluten power

is not strong anymore. That means less chewy and fluffier.

I heard that golden kiwi yeast water makes good bread. I

think golden kiwi has less actinidin?

Do you wanna try ???

Thank you for the information!


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I like the cook'd illustrated magazine~!!

MARCH 11, 2010 8:36 PM

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Patrice said...

I love your website, want to try making my own bread

using your methods, but I wondered if you could give me a

recipe for bread using U.S. measurements like 1 cup, 1/2

cup, etc.? Thanks!

JUNE 24, 2010 9:44 AM

wao said...

Hi,

Id o not use measuring cup for baking so I do not know.....

Please refer here↓↓ to see the recipe (measure by weight)

http://originalyeast.blogspot.com/2009/01/are-you-lost-in-

this-site-here-are-easy.html

JUNE 25, 2010 10:18 PM

Reuben said...

I smashed a handful of red grapes and put them in water.

After one day they are fermenting strongly; I see soda-like

bubbles rising to the surface. I'm wondering if it's better

to start a preferment now when it's fermenting vigorously,

or wait till it calms down and the yeast cells are at their

peak? I actually have enough to try both ways I suppose.

AUGUST 15, 2010 8:00 PM

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wao said...

Hi, Reuben.

I usually wait til bubbles calm down.

If you want to try and see how the preferment process


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goes with both yeast water, you can do so.

Please have fun with your grape yeast water!

AUGUST 15, 2010 8:36 PM

pcs alumni said...

thanks so much for your sharing. very informative. I

followed your method to make my first fresh yeast water.

but want to ask, I used to bake bread with instant dry

yeast. so do u know the equilavent amount if I replace the

instant dry yeast with freash yeast water? thanks a lot.

AUGUST 31, 2010 9:20 PM

Susan Sethi Desperate mother said...

Hi my name is Susan Sethi. I live in Toronto Canada.

My son has multiple food sensitivities. He is on a rotation

diet and is a patient of a Dr. Rea in Dallas Texas. Dr Rea

has many patients on similar diets. We were getting our

amazing bread from a co in Dallas called Francis Simun.

He was able to do yeast free milk free bread out of single

grains, a culture, sea salt and water. They went out of

business and now I running really low on bread supplies.

MY son cannot tolerate wheat but can tolerate quinoa,

millet, kamut amaranth teff tapioca arrowroot yam

cassava and soy potato. I am desperate to find a baker

that can do yeast free wheat free bread that tastes good.

Can you help me? I am willing to learn but right now just

need to know if have had success with any of the above

breads?

My son is only 7 years old and in his short life he has gone

from almost being placed on a feeding tube b/c of his food

sensitivities to an average kid and I cannot go back to the

hell he experienced three years ago. Thanks to this

rotation diet he and myself and my husband have been

given a second chance at life. Willing to pay you or anyone

who can make any of the above bread well.


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We have a fed ex account so shipping would be fairly

simple but expensive.

Please let me know if you have received my post

Susan Sethi

[email protected] 9058286090

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010 11:24 AM

FayLanSkye said...

What you do sounds amazing, thank you for putting this

out there for all of us. :)

I do have two questions though, can I 'keep this alive' in

the fridge, or use it all, and make more? Second, could I

use this in a bread starter, like Amish Friendship Bread?

Thank you much.

FEBRUARY 9, 2011 10:23 AM

df68e6e0-80a1-11e0-b447-000bcdcb8a73 said...

How much yeast water do you use in recipes? How long

does it last and how do you store it?

MAY 17, 2011 9:22 AM

paolo said...

Morning everyone from Quito: this week I baked a couple

of loaves with fruit water yeast succesfully...good flavor,

longer times of raising, good raising...i'd say that people

starting to approach to sourdough and are frustrated,

could try this kind of yeast...you get it faster (in quito,

with an average temp of 18 c degrees, after 48 hours it

was almost ready to use)than sourdough and the flavour is

different from both sourdough and beer

yeast...Recommend it! Cheers Paolo

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2011 10:28 AM

riley said...

how do u use ur yeast do u just pour the water in, scoop

the bubbles off the top or what

DECEMBER 30, 2011 8:01 PM

Rita said...

All this sounds wonderful, but how much yeast water if

recipe calls for 1 pkg (14oz) dry yeast...how much yeast

water do I use to substitute the dry yeast?

Am excited to try this! Always looking for natural ways to

benefit my familys health.

I have also made yeast from whole wheat flour, water, and

sugar...Thank you for your posts~LOVE IT!

JANUARY 31, 2012 12:50 PM

lee said...

Hi Wao,

Your breads are beautiful! I tried 5 different jars and 4 of

them are beginning to bubble. How bubbly should they be

before i use them? I saw your tomato posting (wow!) and

mine just have a little bubbles on the surface (the orange

has the most) I bake GF so i need a strong rise. Thanks!

FEBRUARY 26, 2012 6:51 AM

Alice Osborne and Jeanne Wolfley said...

Hello WAO, I so hope you keep up with your comment

reading, because I'm dying to connect with you, for three

reasons:

1) I write for a weekly subscription-based foodie

newsletter and I want to do an article on natural yeast

and quote you. I hope I have your permission? I'm

including the link to your blog and giving you total credit

for everything.

2) I co-write a blog, MAKING FAMILY DINNER HOUR

POSSIBLE

(www.makingfamilydinnerhourpossible.blogspot.com) and

I would LOVE for you to be a guest author. What you do

fits so perfectly with our message!


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PLEASE get back to me on these things asap? My email is

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Thanks so much, and I can hardly wait to hear from you!

MARCH 29, 2012 8:27 PM

burt mikka said...

i tried just what you said to make yeast and nothing but

one raison raised to the top of the concoction. so is that a

yeast to use? or should i start again? i need to learn how

that is a fact. have a great day.

MAY 1, 2012 4:53 AM

Gabriela Steve said...

Great blog! We are starting our own yeast water today

using this method and have shared about it on our blog.

Thanks for the information:)

JUNE 17, 2012 2:05 PM

uptowner said...

who cares about bread what about wine/beer yeast

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HOw TO: apple core yeast water DAY1

Put 2 apple cores in a clean jar with water to cover the cores.

You don't have to put too much fruit in a jar but more

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fruit(=sugar) makes better yeast water.

Put its lid on and wait....

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HOW TO: apple core yeast water DAY2

You start seeing some small bubbles in the jar.

It might take more than 24hours to see bubbles depending on

room temperature.

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zenwild said...

Hello,

I am currently trying to make yeast water with raisins and

pears for the first time. I had some questions and found

your blog!

I followed the process and the next day, some of the

raisins were floating with small bubbles, but the next day,


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Macrobiotics

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boulangeries.

they sank...

For pears, I see small bubble a little, but not sure if it is

ready or not.

They still smell fruits.

My house is not very warm about 50 degrees. Do you think

it is too cold for the yeast to grow or do you think the

yeasts are already dead? Should I start over?

I appreciate your advise!

JANUARY 26, 2010 11:17 PM

wao said...

usually it takes 4-5 days to make yeast water so you can

wait for few more days to see more bubbles.

fruity smell will change to fruity wine smell.

good luck!

(I am now in Japan. sorry for my late response)

JANUARY 28, 2010 6:32 AM

zenwild said...

Hi Wao,

Thank you for your reponse!

I placed the jars in a warmer room after I wrote my

previous comment, and the next day, "Voila!" more raisins

floated and it smelled like alcohol a little! This morning

the smell was more significant so I think I will take the

fruits out tomorrow.

This is actually a my daughter's science project but I

picked the theme so that I can bake nice bread. :-P I am

glad it seems to be working now.

Hope you are having a great time in Japan. I was there 3

weeks ago.

JANUARY 28, 2010 11:34 AM

wao said...

Wow!


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Glad to hear that you and your daughter are getting nice

result^^

If you prefer to keep the fruits in the jar, you could do so.

Hope that you would be able to bake good bread.

It's cold in japan...

JANUARY 28, 2010 1:07 PM

zenwild said...

Hi Wao,

We were able to bake simple rolls with the yeast water I

made!

First the dough was very soft and it was difficult to

handle, but it turned out ok. I guess it is usual when

using yeast water straight from the jar..?

Also, I will leave the fruits inside the jar next time. ^^

Thank you for your advise!

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how's your yeast water?

Hi, friends.

I got a question from my friend about how it looks like when the

yeast water is ready for bread baking.

The jar should look like this.

(please see the picture)

It looks like soda pop and has many tiny bubbles.(If yours look

like this and still sitting on your counter, please move it to

refrigerator.)

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If you start making your yeast water more than 5 days ago and

yours does not look like this( or anything close to this), add

some sugar and shake your jar and wait for another day.

If you are using sulfured dried fruits, you might not get any

good result...

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