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Loog-pang is a dry Thai starter ball of rice flour with garlic, pepper and other spices. The balls are dusted with old starter, kept at room temperature for two to five days while moulds and yeasts grow, then dried. Crumbled onto steamed glutinous rice, they make sweet khao mak or sato rice wine.
Fully documentedStarters and koji11 days – 14 days
Recipe
Amounts from a sourceThe herb amounts are a university lab formula for a black glutinous rice sato starter. Village recipes vary by region and are not fixed.
Glutinous rice flour (Oryza sativa var. glutinosa powder)100 g
back-slop: powder of an old starter dusted over the balls
Total time across the recorded steps: 11 days – 14 days
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What changes:Rice flour is mixed with garlic, pepper and other spices
Step 1 of 5
Grind rice and mix with spices and water
Time
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Temperature
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Salt
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Acidity
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Which microbes the steps name, step by step
Moulds
Yeasts
Aspergillus oryzae
Pichia kudriavzevii
Output: spiced rice dough.
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Microbes at work in this step
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Method
Measured measured in a studySet fixed by a specification or tested recipeReported one source reports itTypical a general value, not sourced for this fermentUnconfirmed not yet checked against a source
At a glance
Loog-pang is a dry Thai starter ball of rice flour with garlic, pepper and other spices. The balls are dusted with old starter, kept at room temperature for two to five days while moulds and yeasts grow, then dried. Crumbled onto steamed glutinous rice, they make sweet khao mak or sato rice wine. Made in 5 steps over 11 days – 14 days. The longest step, use on steamed glutinous rice, takes 8 days (Rattanasuk S 2026). Amylomyces rouxii, Aspergillus oryzae and A. niger and Saccharomycopsis fibuligera do most of the fermenting.
Loog-pang is the Thai member of the rice-ball starter family with ragi and xiaoqu. Studies of khao mak starters look for strong sugar-making moulds that give little alcohol; studies of sato starters look for alcohol-tolerant yeasts.
Loog-pang khao makFor sweet khao mak; its moulds make strong glucoamylase and its main yeast, Saccharomycopsis fibuligera, makes little alcohol.
Loog-pang satoFor rice wine; selected alcohol-tolerant yeasts reached 16.0 % ethanol in a lab sato.
Safety
A. oryzae is close to A. flavus, which makes aflatoxin, so the 2020 study of khao mak starters from 12 provinces checked its mould isolates for aflatoxin on coconut agar medium. The A. oryzae isolate UD01 showed none, which also confirmed it was A. oryzae and not A. flavus.
Hazards the sources name: Aflatoxin from A. flavus, a close relative of A. oryzae (the A. oryzae isolate UD01 from a khao mak starter made none on coconut agar).
Loog-pang-khao-mak has been used for decades as a Thai starter for fermented foods (Roongrojmongkhon et al. 2020). A 1977 survey by Pichyangkura and Kulprecha, cited in the FAO 1999 bulletin, found Amylomyces, Aspergillus, Rhizopus, Mucor and Absidia moulds in loog-pang from various sources in Thailand.