Carolyn wrote the following:
>
> You can use your oven to keep sourdough starter warm or even to let bread
> rise by turning on the oven light, placing the bowl in the oven and closing
> the door. This will work as well or better than a gas pilot light (with
> electric ignition these days very few of us still have a constant pilot
> anyway). I have an oven thermometer setting on an oven rack and the temp
> hovers around 85F. with this method in my oven.
Yes, this does work very well. The only thing is, be sure to put
up a note somewhere really obvious that the starter is in there if someone
else may cook in your kitchen. I lost my favorite starter when it was in
the oven and my husband turned it on to pre-heat for something he was
going to cook, decided to go take a shower while it was heating up, and
came back to find that it had cooked into a solid mass.
Cheers,
Janet