why, when cooking a pizza, mozzarella melts but bread gets harder? What makes them react different to heat?

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why, when cooking a pizza, mozzarella melts but bread gets harder? What makes them react different to heat?

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It’s not that the bread gets harder, it’s that yeast causes the dough to rise and become bread. If heating continues, the bread becomes dry and then brittle.

Mozzarella, lacking rising agents, and also full of water, melts when the water is released.

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