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A 68-second animation with captions on screen. The narrator voice and the music are made with AI; the rest is drawn in code. On a warm dark background, a lit glass jar of bubbly sourdough starter under the title "Why is sourdough SOUR?" Two slim tubes appear on the glass: pink, labelled lactic acid, higher, and olive, labelled acetic acid, lower. Inside the paste, cartoon gold yeasts and pink rod-shaped bacteria with little faces float among bubbles. Most pink rods give off pink and olive dots (label: lactic acid bacteria). A second paste panel slides in with a few olive rods (label: acetic acid bacteria). A clock, a thermometer and a water drop appear; the clock sweeps and both tubes rise; the thermometer turns amber, then blue-grey. Outside, the paste rises to a "peak" tick and both tubes climb high. A scoop adds flour, a pitcher adds water, the tubes dip and the lid goes back on. It ends on "What do you like better: a little sour, or really sour?" with opensourdough.com/science.

A 66-second animation with captions on screen. The narrator voice, the music and the drawing of the hand are made with AI. On a warm dark background, a lit glass jar of bubbly sourdough starter under the title "What IS a sourdough starter?" Inside the jar: white starch granules and bubbles, with cartoon gold yeasts and pink rod-shaped bacteria in short chains, both with little faces. Labels pop up: wild yeasts, lactic acid bacteria, a 100 : 1 chip (bacteria to yeasts), carbon dioxide (CO₂) as a bubble swells, and lactic acid as a pink sour spreads. Outside: "So where did the town come from?" Flour pours in, a grain carrying riders; a hand reaches over the rim; air, a water pitcher and the jar add grey-blue visitors. Inside, the visitors fade as the sour spreads (label: acid-tolerant), then a "week 1, week 2" strip fills. One bag of flour feeds five slightly different jars. It ends: "That's a sourdough starter: a tiny town you feed and water." with opensourdough.com/science.

Animation of a bake's schedule in OpenSourdough. Bulk ferment runs to 1:50 PM, and the loaf is out of the oven at 7:52 AM tomorrow. A tap on +15m moves every later step 15 minutes, to 8:07 AM. A tap on Done starts the first fold early, and every later step moves up with it, back to 7:52 AM.

Screen recording of the OpenSourdough website on a phone: recipes timed to your kitchen, every step on a clock, and the guide to what went wrong with a loaf.