Anyone else feel like it’s blasphemous to put your starter in tupperware?
All my glassware is dirty so he's gotta be in here for a while. It's like cleaning a fish bowl 😂
by MondoMoondo14
28 Comments
SmolikOFF
Now that I’m looking at it, it actually looks the opposite. It looks… right?.. Maybe I should move my starter to Tupperware, hm
SimGemini
Nope, not at all. Actually bakeries use big plastic bins for their starters. It looks more hygienic than the crusty jars with paper towel covers seen on Reddit.
phred0909
Agreed! For whatever reason I feel right with glass/ceramic only. Maybe because it just feels more natural.
LingonberryGrand1437
Do you keep the container locked when you’re bulk fermenting?
ShaunSin
I just use deli containers and swap them every feeding
LatterArugula5483
Mine is in a tupperware, it doesn’t seem to bother it.
IncaTheFearless
No
interpreterdotcourt
food grade hard plastic whatever the restaurants use, like cambro style, that’s smooth on the inside, is great, as long as a cover is on correctly, not to seal it but seated just right.
CawlinAlcarz
No.
I use a 1 quart plastic deli container for my starter – it’s more convenient in every conceivable way.
My kitchen is all about function before fashion. As such, I have a bunch of Cambros and other “industrial” looking kitchen wares, mostly purchased from webstaurant store.
Hefty_Peanut2289
I have two of these. Why would it be a bad thing? Stacks well in my fridge, and was cheap to buy.
IceDragonPlay
I prefer glass canning jars. I have an inherent dislike of plastics. I will use plastic for short term food contact purposes (cambro tubs) but don’t care for it for long term storage.
skipjack_sushi
Think you have enough?
tcumber
I use glass. I have a fear of microplastics and chemicals. Maybe it is unfounded, but I prefer use glass
Zentij
Whatever will hold it
Icy-Mycologist-444
I use a big melamine bowl. It’s excellent.
marsupialcinderella
I love Lock n Lock! My starter is in glass and I mix levains in a Cambro.
bryanna_leigh
It feels dirty lol!
No-Literature-6695
I’m scared of microplastics and forever plastic, myself. But they are very light, stackable and unlikely to shatter or break. It’s certainly the most convenient option.
Time_Definition5004
Why?
AuDHDiego
I did for years but now worry about how much plastic I was eating lol
Victoriafoxx
If that’s considered blasphemous, I don’t want to know what me storing my starter in an old plastic soup container from the Chinese takeout place is considered…
Primary-Golf779
Mine is in a plastic keg-cup with plastic wrap over it. You’re miles ahead of me
DepartmentEcstatic
I try to stay away from plastic tupperware in general for any kind of food storage just because of the microplastics that slowly break off and leach into our food. They suspect this is how so much plastics are getting inside our body, also from wearing synthetic clothing and the plastic breaking off and getting inside our pores, skin care products as well that we slather all over our skin is full of plastic. Gross huh. They can be endocrine disruptors and carcinogens. Just doesn’t seem worth the risk to me. My starter stays in a glass jar.
Fishtoart
Considering the huge volume of different kinds of foods that are sold in plastic containers (Sometimes in them for months) I think you’re probably OK.
gtan1204
Cambro is clean, simple, easy to store and stack vs glass
SourJoshua
Not even a little bit. Whatever works best!
Tronkfool
Tupperware is made for spaghetti sauce dude.
mathe_matical
I’m indifferent tbh, as long as you can mix the starter effectively I don’t see the problem. I personally use a glass one with a fitted fabric cover so I don’t have to burp it lol
28 Comments
Now that I’m looking at it, it actually looks the opposite. It looks… right?.. Maybe I should move my starter to Tupperware, hm
Nope, not at all. Actually bakeries use big plastic bins for their starters. It looks more hygienic than the crusty jars with paper towel covers seen on Reddit.
Agreed! For whatever reason I feel right with glass/ceramic only. Maybe because it just feels more natural.
Do you keep the container locked when you’re bulk fermenting?
I just use deli containers and swap them every feeding
Mine is in a tupperware, it doesn’t seem to bother it.
No
food grade hard plastic whatever the restaurants use, like cambro style, that’s smooth on the inside, is great, as long as a cover is on correctly, not to seal it but seated just right.
No.
I use a 1 quart plastic deli container for my starter – it’s more convenient in every conceivable way.
My kitchen is all about function before fashion. As such, I have a bunch of Cambros and other “industrial” looking kitchen wares, mostly purchased from webstaurant store.
I have two of these. Why would it be a bad thing? Stacks well in my fridge, and was cheap to buy.
I prefer glass canning jars. I have an inherent dislike of plastics. I will use plastic for short term food contact purposes (cambro tubs) but don’t care for it for long term storage.
Think you have enough?
I use glass. I have a fear of microplastics and chemicals. Maybe it is unfounded, but I prefer use glass
Whatever will hold it
I use a big melamine bowl. It’s excellent.
I love Lock n Lock! My starter is in glass and I mix levains in a Cambro.
It feels dirty lol!
I’m scared of microplastics and forever plastic, myself. But they are very light, stackable and unlikely to shatter or break. It’s certainly the most convenient option.
Why?
I did for years but now worry about how much plastic I was eating lol
If that’s considered blasphemous, I don’t want to know what me storing my starter in an old plastic soup container from the Chinese takeout place is considered…
Mine is in a plastic keg-cup with plastic wrap over it. You’re miles ahead of me
I try to stay away from plastic tupperware in general for any kind of food storage just because of the microplastics that slowly break off and leach into our food. They suspect this is how so much plastics are getting inside our body, also from wearing synthetic clothing and the plastic breaking off and getting inside our pores, skin care products as well that we slather all over our skin is full of plastic. Gross huh. They can be endocrine disruptors and carcinogens. Just doesn’t seem worth the risk to me. My starter stays in a glass jar.
Considering the huge volume of different kinds of foods that are sold in plastic containers (Sometimes in them for months) I think you’re probably OK.
Cambro is clean, simple, easy to store and stack vs glass
Not even a little bit. Whatever works best!
Tupperware is made for spaghetti sauce dude.
I’m indifferent tbh, as long as you can mix the starter effectively I don’t see the problem. I personally use a glass one with a fitted fabric cover so I don’t have to burp it lol