Via stavvers.wordpress.com

British Blogger Zoe Stavri whipped the Internet up into a frothy bread mix frenzy earlier this week, after writing about a sourdough loaf she'd begun to make from scratch, leavened with yeast from a vaginal infection. She sourced the yeast with the help of a dildo, as if baking weren't fun enough already.

Her first tweets on the subject chronicled her yeast making her dough rise — "IT'S ALIVE"! she wrote, in an acceptable use of all caps — and a blog post also documented the criticism she'd received on social media in response. Noting much of the hate came from apparently grossed-out men, Stavri argues that "the vast majority of the utter horror about my sourdough isn't anything to do with ignorance on food hygiene, but more to do with a general mistrust and horror at vag." Also:

In a follow-up post Wednesday, Stavri chronicled the baking and eating of her special sourdough — it's worth noting that the baking process would have killed off any bacteria present in the yeast (and Stavri also says her infection cleared up also, FYI). The bread smelled great while in the oven, she noted, but did worry she had overbaked the loaves a little:

"It tasted like a pretty damn nice sourdough bread. Not the tangiest sourdough I've ever eaten, but solidly tasty...I really, really liked it," Stavri wrote. "After having a little bite, I ate a slice with butter. The bread was still slightly warm and the butter soaked in and it was absolutely heavenly." While acknowledging its very possible the sourdough rose and baked of its own volition (i.e. without her vaginal yeast, of which she only had a very small quantity in the mix) Stavri says she plans to bake more moving forward using her leftover starter, with pizza and/or bagels maybe coming up next. Read more from Stavri's recipe, and related commentary, at her blog, Another Angry Woman; Cosmopolitan.com has also reached out for further comment on the experiment and what her favorite vagina yeast sourdough sandwich fillings are.

P.S. In the best response possible to the hate Stavri says she received from men on Twitter, she noted thusly:





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