Sourdough Starter

How do you capture wild yeast to create your own sourdough starter?

I once read about how to create your own sourdough starter by setting out a bowl of flour and water overnight and capturing the wild yeast present in the air as the dew falls. I've lost the article. Obviously, I don't want to make a bunch of failed batches of bread! Anyone have any particulars that could help me? Thanks.

Well... this used to work for the gold miner's in San Francisco, because is a specific strain of yeast present in the air around SF.

This was the preferred method for centuries, then the advent of beer brought bread baking into more of a science, than a game of chance.

I don't know how well this would work currently. I certainly wouldn't try it where I live, I live in a big city and I wouldn't want smog in my bread, nor any of the other nasties in the air.

There are natural forms of yeast found in health food stores... I would just buy one of those instead of trusting your health to the random yeast spores that might come floating by.

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