Jul 28, 2022

Painting with Yeast Part 2

First experience painting with yeast. The palette below showed the color in different stages.
The one on the left was prepared the day before, while the right side was done a couple of week before.


We started drawing on pieces of paper to have a reference.






Here is another template,  interestingly enough when the yeast is placed on the petridish is not visibile.




* The petri dishes with yeast were placed in a container that was 30 degree celsius. It will take about a week to see results.



RESULTS
After 3 days the colors started changing and it was removed from the temperature regulated container.
The images below are the results after a week.




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Not my petri dish but something interesting happened during the fermentation process. A fly came in the container and walked over the the petri dish below making a collaboration with nature even better.

Image below by Karen Ingram & Beth Tuck @ Genspace





 

Dextrose instead of sugar

  The pellicle grew nicely BUT the dextrose measurement * might not be the same as the sugar*  measurement.  Given that the structure is dif...