Science: Health: Hair
Bread Beard   (+2)  [vote for, against]
Remove facial hair with dough

When I baked bread in the past, I found that dough adhering to my forearms would yank out the hairs when I peeled it off. If a person with unwanted facial hair were to apply dough to their beard area, halfbake it with just tolerable heat and then take that off, they would probably have moved a substantial portion of the hair. They could then complete the baking process and have a small flat loaf or pizza base to eat full of extra roughage in the form of hair, which would eventually become a surgically removable gastric hairball, which someone could surely make up a story about it being medically beneficial and sell, either to desperately I'll people or maybe an art gallery.
-- nineteenthly, Feb 18 2016

Ergotism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergotism
St Anthony's Fire [8th of 7, Feb 18 2016]

St. Elmo's Fire https://en.wikipedi...i/St._Elmo%27s_fire
What I thought the above link's description was referring to, at first, which confused me. [notexactly, Feb 20 2016]

What this idea shows is the extreme inadvisability of home-baking bread using mouldy rye flour.

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-- 8th of 7, Feb 18 2016


Shepherd's purse contains a similar symbiotic fungus to ergot, so that saves time. It's not hallucinogenic though, so you get the black without the fire.
-- nineteenthly, Feb 18 2016


It's going to be one of those days...
-- normzone, Feb 18 2016


Gluten free?
-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Feb 19 2016


Least threatening pirate name ever.
-- tatterdemalion, Feb 20 2016


I was thinking sourdough.
-- nineteenthly, Feb 20 2016


This may be a crumby idea.
-- normzone, Feb 20 2016



random, halfbakery