Should be fine!

Awesome nevermore! Two thumbs up.

I would spread that dough out thin over the pile and cover it well with other materials. If you don't have any at the moment, remove the top of the pile, spread out the dough and replace. Fairly soon it will dissolve into the matrix of the pile. Don't worry about the yeast - there is wild yeast everywhere including the compost pile, but the conditions keep its population limited. Most of the yeast in the dough will die off rather than taking over the pile.

I toss my excess sourdough starter into the compost.

Nevermore--that was HILARIOUS!

This disaster of a dough (malfunction with the bread machine) will get chunked up (too thick to spread), and added. I think it will be fine, but now I'm kinda prepared in the event either Scenario 2 or Scenario 4 presents.

I didn't even notice I skipped Senario #3. Let me look in to that one....

Obviously the Blob ate Scenario #3.

Just don't tell Annpat.

"I would spread that dough out thin over the pile and cover it well with other materials..."

May I suggest Mozzarela, tomato, basil, anchovies and a few olives?

I see a third scenario. You end up with no friends and your neighbors sue you. Your children won't go outdoors and your parents won't visit. Everyone calls you 'Oh-No-He-Didnint' instead of patch. You are despised in your town, but celebrated in Planaria Geographic.

Planarian on Disgusting.

The yeast that is used in Pizza dough will die off in a compost pile. Your compost pile will not grow into a big blob that goes out and devours half the town.

kimmq is kimmsr

Aww, you're no fun kimmsr. :-D

I've never met a dough that couldn't be rehabbed somehow. It must have been a bad one!

Just an update: Despite deeply burying the dough in small pieces in two piles, a large bubble of goo did erupt back to the surface this morning. So 'tho I don't think my neighbors will have to run for the hills, the dough still has a little fight left in it. Thanks all for the levity. This really has to be most fun thing I ever composted.

You guys never disappoint. I love this forum.

I'd get some of those marker flags like for gas lines and stuff, and with a Sharpie, put down the date and time on the plastic bit, and put them into the pile near the oozing spot. This way you can monitor any expansion.

In any event, I'd keep the womenfolk away. It might get ugly if the planarians attack.

The womenfolk! Planarian attack! Snort! I'd like to meet the planarian I couldn't disarm!!

Careful david52. You should have seen what happened to the guy who got near annpat's chipper. She showed us the photo.

There's a block buster movie out in September on this subject:

annpat, you're making such progress. Normally you'd be in a fetal position yelling "EWWW!" about the soggy proto-bread. Instead you're ready to do battle with the Blob AND the planarians. Formidable, you Mainers are.