Technology and Making bread

      On the second week of October, for biology lab we talked about yeast, which is a fungi used in a lot of ways. One way being in the process of making bread which we did in lab. I learned a lot from this experiment. The life cycle of a loaf of bread is like that of the undead. Bread starts off alive with the wheat plants, which are then killed to make flour. Hungry micro-organisms (from the yeast) are added to it which brings it back to life. After a feeding frenzy, these live cultures give up their last breath in the oven and, in a puff, bread is born.

Those organisms have their own personality and character. They eat a lot, which leads to a lot of farting and burping. The gas rips through the dough and makes it grow. Well that's a simple way of explaining it anyway. We also tested how the different ingredients in bread would affect the growth of yeast like salt, sugar, flour, etc. By the end of class we were able to taste the bread made using something like a mini-oven (I forgot what it was called) , it tasted really good.