Starter Cultures and Deionised water

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Leesel
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Starter Cultures and Deionised water

Post by Leesel » Sat Mar 06, 2021 20:00

Hi All,

Does anyone know if I can used deionised water instead of distilled water when waking up starter cultures. It’s vastly cheaper and according to what I’ve read seems like it would work and the only difference seems to be the process of purification.
Thanks
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Re: Starter Cultures and Deionised water

Post by Indaswamp » Sat Mar 06, 2021 20:34

The microbes need the ions in the water for proper osmotic pressure...at least that is what I have read....
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Re: Starter Cultures and Deionised water

Post by Leesel » Sat Mar 06, 2021 21:37

Indaswamp wrote:
Sat Mar 06, 2021 20:34
The microbes need the ions in the water for proper osmotic pressure...at least that is what I have read....
I’ll stick with distilled then thanks
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