After awhile, if stored improperly, yeast cells will die. And if you use dead or dying yeast in your bread, it won't rise. So long as the water you combine with your yeast feels comfortable to you, it'll be comfortable for the yeast, too. You can increase the size of most bread recipes by simply doubling, tripling, etc. That being said, many home recipes, particularly older ones, use more yeast than this; so when you double or triple the yeast, you may find that your dough is rising too fast—faster than you can comfortably deal with it.
In addition, if you've increased your recipe by 5 times or more, and also increased the yeast by 5 times, keep in mind the time it will take you to shape the dough. You may find the rising dough outpaces your ability to get it shaped and baked. If that's the case, make a note to reduce the amount of yeast next time.
If you've ever baked bread, you'll have noticed that sometimes yeast seems to work more quickly than other times. Yeast, like any living organism, is happiest when it's in a comfortable environment. For yeast, this means plenty of food and moisture; the right pH acid balance ; and the right amount of warmth. Salt and sugar can both slow down yeast activity. Each of them are osmotic, meaning they can pull moisture out of yeast cells, thus adversely affecting how the yeast functions.
We add salt to yeast dough both for flavor, and to moderate yeast's work; we don't want our loaves rising TOO fast. Yeast makes bread rise. Just as baking soda and baking powder make your muffins and cakes rise, yeast makes breads of all kinds rise—sandwich loaves, rolls, pizza crust, artisan hearth breads, and more.
Instead, it starts to eat: sugar sucrose and fructose is its favorite food. If there is sugar in the dough, that's what the yeast eats first; once that's gone, yeast converts the starch in flour into sugar; thus flour is capable of providing yeast with a continuous food source.
The byproducts of feeding yeast are CO2, alcohol, and organic acids. CO2 released by yeast is trapped in bread dough's elastic web of gluten; think of blowing up a balloon. Alcohol and organic acids disperse throughout the dough, enhancing baked bread's flavor. As long as moisture and food are available, yeast will continue to eat and produce CO2, alcohol, and organic acids.
Yeast is a single-cell organism, part of the fungi kingdom. The yeast we use most often today, Saccharomyces cerevisiae , is one of the oldest domesticated organisms known to mankind: it's been helping humans bake bread and brew alcohol for thousands of years.
These compounds also affect the structure of the dough, changing the crumb and crust after baking. Yeast grows best at 26 C 79 F and ferments best at 30 - 35 C 86 - 95 F. At lower temperatures yeast slows down both processes and becomes "dormant". At higher temperatures, yeast enzymes do not work well. That is just like a human with a fever. You can use it to slow down your bread dough if you cannot bake it immediately. This can occur during the first proofing or after shaping. It can be done right after you shape your loaf, or to retard a loaf that expanded before you were ready.
Although the latter is not optimal, it usually results in an acceptable product. Sometimes it is just to retard the rise so that we can control when we bake the bread. There are discussions about the flavor being created when the dough is refrigerated for several hours or overnight, but it is unclear whether this comes from the enzymes in the flour, yeast metabolites, dying yeast byproducts or other chemical reactions.
There are several bread baking methods that require refrigeration. Martin's Press uses it, keeping the dough for up to three weeks in the refrigerator, and Peter Reinhart suggests keeping the primary doughs in the refrigerator for up to three days if you cannot use them right away.
Also, the Swiss Wurzelbrot method bakes the loaves directly from the refrigerator and some sweet braided breads can be refrigerated and baked in the morning for breakfast.
Yeast that you buy at the store has optimal fermentation rates at 30 - 35 C 86 - 95 F. Most modern bread recipes call for proofing around those temperatures. If you do not heat or cool your house much, room temperature will fluctuate wildly. At 60 F in our kitchen on a winter day, bread dough rises very slowly. It will affect the end product and results in a tighter, more crumbly bread. This could be because plant enzymes found in the flour work best at colder temperatures and break down more gluten and starch.
This would affect the ability of the gluten to hold the gas the yeast produce. Still, a cold kitchen can slow down a dough that is rising too fast or gives a dough more time to develop flavor, which is a good thing, so there is always a trade-off. One gram of yeast contains 20 billion tiny cells. That's billion cells! When you start making bread, add the amount of yeast called for in the recipe. If it tastes good and has the properties you want, then stick with it.
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One tablespoon of the dried yeast has just 23 calories and 3 grams of protein but surprisingly high levels of iron, phosphorus and B vitamins. Yeast are single-celled fungi. A tiny organism with a long name. Yeast are widely dispersed in nature with a wide variety of habitats. They are commonly found on plant leaves, flowers, and fruits, as well as in soil. Yeast are also found on the surface of the skin and in the intestinal tracts of warm-blooded animals, where they may live symbiotically or as parasites.
Many types of fungi live in and on the human body, including the genus of yeasts known as Candida. Candida is typically found in small amounts in the mouth and intestines and on the skin.
At normal levels, the fungus is not problematic. However, eating a product like active dry yeast directly is especially harmful. If you eat the yeast directly it may cause a massive immune response. Because of this, the person will feel severe stomach pains, weakness and fatigue and any unique allergic reactions associated with her yeast allergy.
Then, wait 10 minutes. If the mixture bubbles and develops a yeasty aroma, the yeast is still good. The carbon dioxide is what makes the dough rise.
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