It may be the most random thing you will read today: Seamus Blackley, the designer Xbox, sought a bread using Egyptian yeast found in a 4,500 year old ceramic. The event is a little more significant, however, when we see that Seamus is, in addition to being a video game and a physical designer, a large amateur bakery.
To understand:
- In 2019, the Xbox creator used the 4,500 -year -old Egyptian yeast to cook bread;
- At the time, Seamus Blackley detailed the experience on his old Twitter profile, also revealing how he obtained the ingredient;
- With the help of a microbiologist, an archaeologist and a Harvard university, Seamus was extracted from the yeast of an ancient Egyptian ceramics;
- He cultivated the substance until it was ready for cooking and, after cooking the dough, described its flavor and aroma as “incredible”.
In 2019, Blackley used his profile on the old Twitter (present -day x) to detail the entire bakery process – and, more importantly, how he ended up putting his hands on the millennial ingredient. Although the Seamus account is currently unavailable, the Assistant He reported that the physique had already ventured with different bread recipes and had gradually started to be interested in old yeast.
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The Egyptian fermentation bread of the Xbox creator was “incredible”
Blackley explained in his publications that yeast is largely responsible for the aroma of bread. However, of course, the yeast we use today is very different from that made for thousands and thousands of years. He then started his search for old yeasts, with the help of the microbiologist Richard Bowman from the University of Iowa and the Archaeologist Serena from the University of Queensland.
Thanks to the pair, Seamus went to the Harvard University Peabody museum and, with the permission of the museum team, it was extracted from the yeast of the pores of an Egyptian ceramics dated no less than 4,500 years. “Our extraction process was essentially a form of hydraulic fracturing (oil extraction technique) microbiological,” he explained on Twitter.
Seamus spent a week cultivating the substance in his house until he was ready for the oven. When the time has happened, he looked at a natural fermentation bread and sculpted a hieroglyph in his skin. As for the taste, the Xbox creator has spared no detail: “the aroma and the taste are incredible” and softer than modern breads. “I had to help but eat too much because it was a morning.”
