Ask most home bakers what yeast does, and you'll probably hear that it makes bread rise. That's like saying a computer lets you type — it's true, but it's also a lot more than that. Yeast is a living ...

With more interest in home-baked bread than ever before. And that means a lot of people are making friends with yeast for the first time. I am a professor of hospitality management and a former chef, ...

Ever wondered why bread dough rises when baking? Or why pizza dough gets puffy? It's all thanks to tiny living organisms called yeast! In this experiment, we'll see exactly how yeast works by watching ...

Here is a story, for quarantined times, about extremely tiny organisms that do some of their best work by burping into uncooked dough. In the end, if things go well, there is good bread. If things go ...

Yeast takes up only a small portion of your supermarket's baking aisle, but it's used way more than you might think. It's the key to making a beautifully proofed loaf of bread. It's the main ...

Anyone who has tried to bake bread on cold days knows: the recipe is the same, the ingredients are the same, but the dough simply doesn't rise as it should. The result is often a heavy, low loaf that ...