Straight dough
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Straight dough is a single-mix process of making bread. The dough is made from all fresh ingredients, and they are all placed together and combined in one kneading or mixing session. After mixing, a b
Dough being mixed in a commercial planetary mixer
Digital scale
Dough, resting and rising in bulk fermentation
Some amount of time later
Baker's yeast
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Baker's yeast is the common name for the strains of yeast commonly used in baking bread and other bakery products, serving as a leavening agent which causes the bread to rise by converting the ferment
Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the yeast commonly used as baker's yeast. Gradation marks are 1 μm apart.
A block of compressed fresh yeast in its wrapper
Active dried yeast, a granulated form in which yeast is commercially sold
A single grain of active dry yeast. The numbered ticks on the scale are 230 μm apart.