how does yeast make bread dough increase in size?
In: Biology
r/breadit is good for this too, as is r/baking.
Carry on.
It eats the dough and farts out gas, which ends up trapped as bubbles in the dough.
When you give yeast warm water and sugar it comes alright be and produces carbon dioxide which creates bubbles in the dough which causes the dough to rise
Yeast is a microbe, and it consumes the sugars in the dough. As it does this, it produces gas as a waste product, which inflates the dough and let’s it rise as it essentially fills with air. That’s why bread dough has lots of air pockets in it.
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