Are starters light averse?

[mezman]

I'm just wondering. I've been keeping my starters in a closet and out of the light to this point, but now I've built a stir plate and I have no outlets in that closet. I can move my starter elsewhere in the house if I need to but I hear a lot of people talking about keeping their stirrers in the kitchen.

So will light harm the yeast? Should I make provisions to find a dark closet with an outlet?

 

[GrizlyGarou]

The problem with light and beer is the hops getting skunked. No worries about the yeast being in the light that I'm aware of.

 

[Revvy]

If it has hops in it is. BUT many people do add hops as a preservative to their starters. It doesn't really matter if it gets skunked if decant off all the "beer" of the starter and just pitch the slurry in.