Yeast & Sugar

[metanoia]

Having baked my own bread aboard for years this yeast in the toilet thing has always intrigued me - but bothers me a bit...........

 

Watching my bread rise I have serious reservations................

[Sea Dog]

Ive bought some active dried baking yeast, is this no good ?.

Yes, it's brilliant. Just don't bother putting it down your toilet until some time after you've eaten whatever you made with it.

[mango]

 

Neil, surely there will be sugars in the sewerage and surely the very action of the yeast on that mass of matter will produce heat. Also I think you will find that yeast will work at lower temperatures than 15C. I can remember my grandmother keeping gallon jars fermenting, very slowly in a very chilly larder on a stone floor.

The bugs in the intestines would have used the sugars, but if the user has diabetes there would be sugar in the urine.

[BlueStringPudding]

I dissolve some sugar in hot water in a jug. Top it up with cold water so it's lukewarm and then stir in some brewers yeast. I leave it a few minutes then flush it down the loo.

 

No idea if it helps, mind.

 

Edited December 24, 2015 by BlueStringPudding

[ditchcrawler]

I have a sign on the front gate saying "No Elephants" works a treat.

[Graham.m]

Depends upon the strain of yeast. Normal brewers yeast ferments down to about 15 degrees C, but you can get yeast specifically for lagers, which continue fermenting, albeit at a lower pace, right down to about 2 degrees C. Also the colder the liquid, the more CO2 it can hold, hence the reason why quality German lagers are so fizzy and hold their head until the next day.

 

I would seek one of these strains out from a home brew shop to use in your pooh tank.

 

What about bakers yeast?

[metanoia]

 

I have a sign on the front gate saying "No Elephants" works a treat.

Great!

 

I think I'll try something similar on my bathroom door - before they get to the one above the toilet roll - "one square at a time, please"

[Sea Dog]

What about bakers yeast?

Fantastic stuff! See post #27!

[Graham.m]

Fantastic stuff! See post #27!

 

Particularly the dried version for tanks

[Sea Dog]

Particularly the dried version for tanks

No! It's for making dough, or beer! It only goes down the loo the day after you've eaten it.

[Graham.m]

No! It's for making dough, or beer! It only goes down the loo the day after you've eaten it.

 

lol Not active then, anyway a full grain flour probably makes it unnecessary to keep the loo under control.

 

Don'tt waste it on beer Ugh horrible stuff lol

Edited December 24, 2015 by Graham.m