How Does Yeast Make Bread?

As you’re wandering through the aisles of the grocery store, you might find your attention caught on any number of things. Frozen pizza. Cupcakes. Wine. And as delicious as all of those are, we doubt that any of them undergoes as spectacular of a transformation as a packet of instant yeast does when you shoot lasers at it.

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With the gardening season at the door, it would be amazing to have an episode on organisms found in organic soil. Rhizobacterias, rhizobia, mycorrhiza, etc etc etc. It would be amazing!

[Rompler_Rocco]

In 20 years of making pizza dough daily, the first time I truly respected yeast was when I forgot to add it. The next time was when I added yeast, but forgot the sugar.

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What's the specific word for that feeling of tranquility one feels on hearing that it's Hank presenting, with that special ASMR voice that he reserves exclusively for this channel?

[SoGGet]

Perfect timing on this video. I just started brewing mead again this weekend. The fermentation has really kicked off today, filling my apartment with the sweet scent of honey.

[matthewsanders]

As a (retired) professional brewer, I couldn't agree more. There is a saying: "brewers make wort; *yeast* make beer." My professional life and understanding of the craft leapt forward once I started to ask myself how I could make my yeast most happy, rather than simply procuring a fancy ingredient or expensive piece of equipment. Fact is the modern world grew up in concert with yeast--agriculture, industry, medicine--hell even the roots of our understanding of microbiology are tied intimately to our understanding of yeast. We humans are shepherds of yeast, just as much as any livestockin the last 10, 000 years.

[U]

I make alcohol. I'm always fascinated by the little yeasties and how hard they work. I love my little buddies.

[bokchoiman]

It's amazing to me how I am able to witness such beauty in great detail

[SeanBZA]

You should also go to a brewery and see just how they make that dried yeast as well, taking the liquid wort from the beer, well filtered to remove all the solids from the malt, wheat and hops, and consisting of nearly pure yeast after being centrifuged down, and then you have the final stage, drying over a heated drum, and then getting the thin film of yeast that is left scraped off, looking like massive cinnamon sticks. Very tasty right there, still hot from the steam, and then moved to a mill, where it is ground to powder and bagged for use.

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The voice over guy has a very soothing sound...lower my anixity and help me sleep.... thank you very much.

[isabellemccarthy]

I think this channel has convinced me to finally bite the bullet and take some bio classes at university. It would be a useful skill to understand the ecology of microorganisms in the soil as an environmental scientist.

[tubaman]

Hank you really should narrate book with this exact tone and pace.

[Phalanx]

I used to home brew, it's cool to see these close up.

[TheWretchedOwl]

I always imagined that if aliens ever came to earth the weirdest thing about us to them would be yeast. Like yeah we make bread fluffy by purposefully infecting it with fungus and letting the excrement puff it up.

[thegatekpr]

In my opinion, bread is the greatest food ever invented; all thanks to something my eyes can't even see.

[jacobthompson]

I'm a brewer. Yeast are just little guys that make up about half of my workforce by weight.

[jkuhl]

I do a lot of baking and I have about 20 bottles of different meads, beers and wines I've made in the past year or so, so saccharomyces cerevisiae is very intriguing to me.

[blayral]

you new way of producing pictures is just stunning