Sourdough Bread – Citizen Science
In our podcast episode we talked about the work done at the Rob Dunn lab at North Carolina State. He’s done TED talks about sourdough microbes and worked on the Global Sourdough Project which we talked about on the podcast.
The Global Sourdough Project was a form of citizen science because it used members of the public to follow an experimental procedure to collect the data that his lab then analyzed.
Now his lab is working on a new project where they need people to make and characterize their sourdough starters and provide them with data that they can analyze to learn more about the microbes in sourdough. This is a great opportunity to contribute to science from your own kitchen and make a sourdough starter you can use to make lots of delicious things. So, it is a win-win.
Head on over to Wild Sourdough to get started!
