How Does Yeast Make Bread?

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  • As you’re wandering through the aisles of the grocery store, you might find your attention caught on any number of things. Frozen pizza. Cupcakes. Wine. And as delicious as all of those are, we doubt that any of them undergoes as spectacular of a transformation as a packet of instant yeast does when you shoot lasers at it.
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  • @StayPrimal
    @StayPrimal ปีที่แล้ว +334

    With the gardening season at the door, it would be amazing to have an episode on organisms found in organic soil. Rhizobacterias, rhizobia, mycorrhiza, etc etc etc. It would be amazing!

  • @Rompler_Rocco
    @Rompler_Rocco ปีที่แล้ว +110

    In 20 years of making pizza dough daily, the first time I truly respected yeast was when I forgot to add it. The next time was when I added yeast, but forgot the sugar.

  • @valenesco45
    @valenesco45 ปีที่แล้ว +105

    What I love the most about this channel is how chill and relaxing these videos are, truly a blessing for those with anxiety and bad mood.

    • @stephanieparker1250
      @stephanieparker1250 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Hank is cool like that 😊

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      @madamsloth ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Agreed, it's nice to fall asleep to as well.

    • @caitlinburke5184
      @caitlinburke5184 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ​@stephanie parker hank helps me sleep, many of nights. Can't thank him enough for all he does.

  • @NITRO2494
    @NITRO2494 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    What I love about the freedom of TH-cam is that this topic has hundreds of different variations of explaining this question, and yet you will still find yourself clicking on such a video because it can be explained so much differently in its own uniquely entertaining way.

    • @ArawnOfAnnwn
      @ArawnOfAnnwn ปีที่แล้ว

      That's hardly unique to TH-cam. You can find multiple beautiful answers to this question on YT's aspiring competitors as well. The difference isn't 'freedom', but scale i.e. YT is just the 800-pound gorilla that has the most videos cos it dominates the market.

    • @neotim5
      @neotim5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ArawnOfAnnwn the freedom of TH-cam is its scale, I think he meant what you describe.

    • @ArawnOfAnnwn
      @ArawnOfAnnwn ปีที่แล้ว

      @@neotim5 That scale actually leads to less freedom, since YT is free to abuse its position. You'll find plenty of videos and articles criticizing its ever worsening content policy, not to mention its terrible copyright system, but it gets away with it thanks to not having any real competition.

  • @palpytine
    @palpytine ปีที่แล้ว +13

    What's the specific word for that feeling of tranquility one feels on hearing that it's Hank presenting, with that special ASMR voice that he reserves exclusively for this channel?

  • @matthewsanders6499
    @matthewsanders6499 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    As a (retired) professional brewer, I couldn't agree more. There is a saying: "brewers make wort; *yeast* make beer." My professional life and understanding of the craft leapt forward once I started to ask myself how I could make my yeast most happy, rather than simply procuring a fancy ingredient or expensive piece of equipment. Fact is the modern world grew up in concert with yeast--agriculture, industry, medicine--hell even the roots of our understanding of microbiology are tied intimately to our understanding of yeast. We humans are shepherds of yeast, just as much as any livestockin the last 10,000 years.

  • @SoGGet
    @SoGGet ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Perfect timing on this video. I just started brewing mead again this weekend. The fermentation has really kicked off today, filling my apartment with the sweet scent of honey.

  • @U012
    @U012 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I make alcohol. I'm always fascinated by the little yeasties and how hard they work. I love my little buddies.

  • @TheWretchedOwl
    @TheWretchedOwl ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I always imagined that if aliens ever came to earth the weirdest thing about us to them would be yeast. Like yeah we make bread fluffy by purposefully infecting it with fungus and letting the excrement puff it up.

  • @SeanBZA
    @SeanBZA ปีที่แล้ว +18

    You should also go to a brewery and see just how they make that dried yeast as well, taking the liquid wort from the beer, well filtered to remove all the solids from the malt, wheat and hops, and consisting of nearly pure yeast after being centrifuged down, and then you have the final stage, drying over a heated drum, and then getting the thin film of yeast that is left scraped off, looking like massive cinnamon sticks. Very tasty right there, still hot from the steam, and then moved to a mill, where it is ground to powder and bagged for use.

    • @BeeRich33
      @BeeRich33 ปีที่แล้ว

      Your terminology is all messed up. They also don't steam yeast. It would kill it.

    • @SeanBZA
      @SeanBZA ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@BeeRich33 Definitely live steam, just the drum is large, so it dries the yeast, and does not kill it.

  • @isabellemccarthy7712
    @isabellemccarthy7712 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I think this channel has convinced me to finally bite the bullet and take some bio classes at university. It would be a useful skill to understand the ecology of microorganisms in the soil as an environmental scientist.

    • @WAMTAT
      @WAMTAT ปีที่แล้ว

      Good luck with your studies

    • @AndrewS-wj8be
      @AndrewS-wj8be 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Biology - super interesting study, but not useful.

  • @thegatek33p3r3
    @thegatek33p3r3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    In my opinion, bread is the greatest food ever invented; all thanks to something my eyes can't even see.

  • @rhavenelmallih6582
    @rhavenelmallih6582 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The voice over guy has a very soothing sound...lower my anixity and help me sleep.... thank you very much.

  • @MaryAnnNytowl
    @MaryAnnNytowl ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Hank's voice is so soothing, it helps my mood no matter how bad a day it's been - and I've had some real doozies, too. I'm thankful for this channel!
    ❤️❤️

  • @FuckTheYoutubeUsernameChange
    @FuckTheYoutubeUsernameChange ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love watching these videos with my breakfast each morning, so one about bread was of course extra fitting

  • @1984Phalanx
    @1984Phalanx ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I used to home brew, it's cool to see these close up.

  • @jacobthompson1682
    @jacobthompson1682 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I'm a brewer. Yeast are just little guys that make up about half of my workforce by weight.

  • @-Graham
    @-Graham ปีที่แล้ว

    Beautiful. Just simply beautiful. 😊

  • @zacharywong483
    @zacharywong483 ปีที่แล้ว

    Excellent video, Microcosmos team!

  • @danielt5464
    @danielt5464 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Beautiful! And amazing

  • @jkuhl2492
    @jkuhl2492 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I do a lot of baking and I have about 20 bottles of different meads, beers and wines I've made in the past year or so, so saccharomyces cerevisiae is very intriguing to me.

  • @blayral
    @blayral ปีที่แล้ว

    you new way of producing pictures is just stunning

  • @philipmurphy2
    @philipmurphy2 ปีที่แล้ว

    A beautiful video on bread for sure.

  • @NewMessage
    @NewMessage ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Make bread, get made INTO bread.. to-may-to, to-mah-to....
    Oooo a tomato sandwich would hit the spot right about now...

  • @bokchoiman
    @bokchoiman ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It's amazing to me how I am able to witness such beauty in great detail

  • @kppizzacatering
    @kppizzacatering 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I know I cant be the only one who would be willing to watch an hour episode on this stuff....

  • @Gwydda
    @Gwydda ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A great video!

  • @crikxouba
    @crikxouba 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    "They do so much for us", and then we reward them by sticking them in the oven at 250 degrees 😅😂

  • @ptarmigan1356
    @ptarmigan1356 ปีที่แล้ว

    Please do more on autofluorescence! What do the different colours mean?
    Also, a look at species in sourdough would be cool too!

  • @bigbrady2244
    @bigbrady2244 ปีที่แล้ว

    What a cool video! And we didn't need the nonsense of macroevolution to make it! Well done. A pleasant and captivating watch.

  • @jekyll7110
    @jekyll7110 ปีที่แล้ว

    what a cool video. the music is also pretty nice

  • @johnmaclean2040
    @johnmaclean2040 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love these videos ❤.

  • @Relfar2
    @Relfar2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Beautiful

  • @SamBellows
    @SamBellows ปีที่แล้ว

    This is a great one! i love that the pre-lazer part at least is something i can do at home with my hobyist microsocope. Time to see if i can get anything near as clear as what The Master of Microsocopes got. :D

  • @BackBruck
    @BackBruck 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I've started making bread. I wanted to know how yeast works! Good job!

  • @galaxiaknight
    @galaxiaknight ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It stresses me so much to click on a video where I expect the soothing, anxiety-calming voice of Hank but instead i am pummeled by the robotic Spanish audio

  • @jamesd5366
    @jamesd5366 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for letting me buy the soundtrack, great work on it, Andrew Huang

  • @GoldsmithsStats
    @GoldsmithsStats ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Does the laser kill the yeast? Is that why the colours fade?

    • @LOONACORE
      @LOONACORE ปีที่แล้ว

      UV rays dont kill things although can cause damage to DNA (that's how we get skin cancer). I think simply the autofluorescent process ends and that's why it fades, not dying

  • @iriandia
    @iriandia ปีที่แล้ว

    Yeasties!! Love these little dudes!!

  • @mat9813004
    @mat9813004 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I was wondering about the autofluoresence, we use calcofluor white and lithium chloride.

  • @musicajuand.
    @musicajuand. ปีที่แล้ว

    Ojalá lo hubieran sacado antes, lo necesitaba 😀.

  • @whysocurious7366
    @whysocurious7366 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    So cool

  • @user-ei4uu1kn2y
    @user-ei4uu1kn2y ปีที่แล้ว +1

    where did you get this microscope videos? is that your video? how can I get this microscope sauces?

  • @ResortDog
    @ResortDog ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Since Ultraviolet light is what makes yeast glow, I understand why you did not put Laser as the source in the title.

  • @loganfox9424
    @loganfox9424 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Can you talk about wine yeast sometime? Sorry in advance but just subscribed and new to the channel. I use wine yeast to make wine. I love yeast. They are cool microbes.

  • @cosmic_gate476
    @cosmic_gate476 ปีที่แล้ว

    Please master these videos in HDR! They would look even more surreal

  • @mrrp405
    @mrrp405 ปีที่แล้ว

    I like that James as a new title.

  • @exploremicroscopy
    @exploremicroscopy ปีที่แล้ว

    Very nice demonstration of photo bleaching!

  • @billiessphincter4104
    @billiessphincter4104 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    How fast do they grow in dough

  • @DaSlaughterer
    @DaSlaughterer ปีที่แล้ว

    Magic

  • @dreglanoth3320
    @dreglanoth3320 ปีที่แล้ว

    Those bubbles look like the Universe expanding.

  • @evilsharkey8954
    @evilsharkey8954 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why do the yeast clusters look like they’re contracting when hit by the UV laser? Are they dying?

  • @wombat.6652
    @wombat.6652 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fantastic! Thank you so much! What is " nutritional yeast" please? Often recommended for vegan/vegetarians as a good source of B group vitamins.

    • @BeeRich33
      @BeeRich33 ปีที่แล้ว

      Same yeast with some fortification of some elements.

    • @wombat.6652
      @wombat.6652 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@BeeRich33 Thank you. :)

  • @hikerJohn
    @hikerJohn ปีที่แล้ว

    What about lactobacillus sanfranciscensis?

  • @khethandhlovu9126
    @khethandhlovu9126 ปีที่แล้ว

    8:18 it's like the end of the universe

  • @ionz75
    @ionz75 ปีที่แล้ว

    So what causes the yeast to glow and then fade under a UV laser? Does it have to be a laser or will any UV light do? You made a lot of hubbub about it but never explained why.

  • @misharik8443
    @misharik8443 ปีที่แล้ว

    At 4:30 if you shake your screen the inside of the yeasts' bubble jiggles

  • @AttommicDog
    @AttommicDog 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Funny how when making bread the desirable byproduct is the gas and the alcohol is burned off when baking. But the opposite byproduct is desired for making alcoholic beverages.

  • @cro5point
    @cro5point ปีที่แล้ว

    Do other things get used like yeast?

    • @BeeRich33
      @BeeRich33 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lots of microbiology goes into various items. Read up on microbiology.

  • @snehapradhan5591
    @snehapradhan5591 ปีที่แล้ว

    💜

  • @the_original_Bilb_Ono
    @the_original_Bilb_Ono 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Im watching this while drinking a beer.

  • @jamesourmasterofmicroscopes
    @jamesourmasterofmicroscopes ปีที่แล้ว +1

    1:06

  • @TheWheelofLife100
    @TheWheelofLife100 ปีที่แล้ว

    All these years and I have been making pizza with my hands when instead I could’ve gotten the yeast to do it.

  • @JohnFleshman
    @JohnFleshman ปีที่แล้ว

    I have a bunch of yeasties makin a batch of mead as I write this comment. Hurray for our little microscopic friends.

  • @bens4446
    @bens4446 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You forgot to explain WHY the auto-fluorescence fades.

  • @AngryKittens
    @AngryKittens ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So bread is basically carbonated biscuits.

  • @foxkit69
    @foxkit69 ปีที่แล้ว

    I feel like I would be remiss to not inform anyone that sees this that 1 yeast packet dissolved into a solution of 1 tsp of salt and 1 and 1 1/2 tsp of sugar plus two scoops of flour with 2 tbsp of olive oil added for flavor = pizza dough. I could give Dominoes $40 still using coupons and get two pizzas and a sandwich, or I could spend the same amount in groceries, and have enough supplies to make MORE pizzas in LESS time than you wait for your order to arrive. :P

  • @ronanclark2129
    @ronanclark2129 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Yeast is like magic because you can make it out of nothing.
    Like algae will fill a discarded jar of once pure water, yeast are always surrounding us in the air we breathe and skin we wear. Paired with the ability to divide every 90 minutes, yeast can be quickly cultivated from the ambient environment.
    So if you and a neighbor made beer using the same recipe but yeast from each of your houses, the two drinks could taste different.

    • @BeeRich33
      @BeeRich33 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well, you have to start with yeast. It doesn't come out of nothing.

    • @rainstorm_jo
      @rainstorm_jo ปีที่แล้ว

      Memory unlocked: In high school... one time I had a bottle of orange juice that I took a swig or two, closed it back up, put it back in my backpack... and forgot about it for about a week. So when I found and opened the bottle I got a nice fizz of carbon dioxide and *very* tangy orange juice 🤣 I guess I"m lucky it didn't make me sick had it been bacterial contamination.... yeast contamination no problem eh😅

  • @MagicSecretsandMysteries
    @MagicSecretsandMysteries ปีที่แล้ว

    1:28 What i got from this video: Yeast is an ally 💅

  • @ImeldaFagin
    @ImeldaFagin ปีที่แล้ว +1

    How do the yeast “eat” the sugar.?

    • @lunkel8108
      @lunkel8108 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      In pretty much the exact same way as your own cells. They have proteins in their membrane that transports glucose into the cell where it undergoes glycolysis, producing a bit of energy for the cell. If enough oxygen is present, it gets further processed into just carbon dioxide and water, producing a lot more energy for the cell. Without oxygen that isn't possible and the cell has to regenerate NAD+, which was used up during glycolysis. It does this by converting the end product of glycolysis into either alcohol and carbon dioxide (yeast) or lactic acid (your own cells).

    • @ImeldaFagin
      @ImeldaFagin ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lunkel8108 thanks. Wow, I don’t even remember the video! I’m watching it over again.

  • @hugobaires2113
    @hugobaires2113 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ty this was very interesting I work with this every day and yeast plays a big roll there was a shortage of yeast so dry yeast was the next best thing

  • @georgep5590
    @georgep5590 ปีที่แล้ว

    I am James. You are James. We are James

  • @stevenkarnisky411
    @stevenkarnisky411 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you, yeast!

  • @jakeman52
    @jakeman52 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Spooky stuff

  • @guilhermebortolotti5486
    @guilhermebortolotti5486 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Good evening. I have been having trouble watching your videos recently. Maybe someone here can help me out.
    TH-cam has translated literary all your videos from English to portuguese (I live in Brazil). I hate it, totaly ruins the video, and I have no clue on how to turn it off. It has not happened to any other channels I watch, so I'm not really sure why.
    Tried to change location and language, but it hasn't worked. Does anyone else have the same problem or maybe know how to fix it?
    Thanks in advance.

  • @BloodAsp
    @BloodAsp ปีที่แล้ว

    But why do they fade? It us is implied they die, is it due to the laser, is what we watch sped up?

  • @OMGZombehs
    @OMGZombehs ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Does the yeast die when it's baked, or is it still living when we eat it?

  • @TheOpaqueWalrus
    @TheOpaqueWalrus ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Microscopes are cool man

  • @Haplo-san
    @Haplo-san ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What? I didn't know bread dough contains alcohol before bake. Maybe that's why I was fond of eating bread dough when I was a kid. And we were always warned to not dough because we could have worms grow inside our body.

    • @Valchrist1313
      @Valchrist1313 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Negligible amounts of ethanol. It's probably not a big issue due to modern day production-methods, but flour does need to be cooked since it can carry parasites.
      Weevils used to be very prevalent in comparison with today, and I'd guess other parasites/intestinal worms are the same.

  • @cristea_mihaela
    @cristea_mihaela ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I have a question that could be answered in a short video. How does granulated yeast liquefy when mixed with sugar? I mean, both the yeast granules and the sugar are solid substances, right? How do these two form a liquid?

    • @RainebowEvee
      @RainebowEvee ปีที่แล้ว

      I think it's mentioned in the video, but there's water added. Sugar won't melt at room temperature and yeast will not activate without moisture :)

    • @cristea_mihaela
      @cristea_mihaela ปีที่แล้ว

      @@RainebowEvee It's not about the video, but about a real life experiment. When baking, sometimes, the recipe requires to liquefy the yeast with sugar and if you mix only yeast and sugar, without water, they eventually form a gray liquid.

    • @RainebowEvee
      @RainebowEvee ปีที่แล้ว

      @@cristea_mihaela as a baker, I can assure you that it is NOT something that happens when mixing sugar and yeast together without adding ANY sort of liquid.

    • @cristea_mihaela
      @cristea_mihaela ปีที่แล้ว

      @@RainebowEvee I am sorry but I do not believe you as I have seen this with my own eyes.

    • @BeeRich33
      @BeeRich33 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You don't mix yeast with sugar. You put it into a sugary solution, which is mostly water. Wort is what brewers make in a brewhouse, which is a mixture of grain carbohydrates and proteins, and water. You cool it down and pitch yeast for fermentation.

  • @menciong325
    @menciong325 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    so, bread and wine glow?

  • @NickHorvath
    @NickHorvath ปีที่แล้ว

    How does the CO2 get to a few large bubbles? Why isn't it tiny bubbles coming from all the yeast? Are the yeast actively passing it to a large garbage dump?

    • @SeanBZA
      @SeanBZA ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Coming out of solution, and the bubbles grow because the concentration of gas in them is at a lower partial pressure than the surrounding liquid, so the gas diffuses into the bubble at a faster rate than it diffuses out back into the liquid.

    • @NickHorvath
      @NickHorvath ปีที่แล้ว

      @@SeanBZA thank you that makes sense it's dissolved in the liquid when the yeast expel it.

  • @Nobody_Special310
    @Nobody_Special310 ปีที่แล้ว

    Weird. I was thinking about yeast a couple of days ago. Therefore, psychic powers exist. QED.

  • @stephanieparker1250
    @stephanieparker1250 ปีที่แล้ว

    Is the yeast we use now the same yeast used a thousand years ago to make bread? If so, has it evolved?

    • @BeeRich33
      @BeeRich33 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Same general application. Wild strains (sourdough) are yeasts from the environment. There are many yeast strains. You'll find more attention to strains in the homebrewing world.

  • @zJoriz
    @zJoriz ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm guessing they all die in the oven though?

  • @GraveUypo
    @GraveUypo ปีที่แล้ว +2

    kinda sad that we use them then burn them then eat them.

  • @stax6092
    @stax6092 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Yeast: Humanity's other best friend.

  • @brendakrieger7000
    @brendakrieger7000 ปีที่แล้ว

    Endlessly fascinating content🦠🔬🥖🥐🍞

  • @TheRogueWolf
    @TheRogueWolf ปีที่แล้ว

    Tiny little yeast cells, all wearing their tiny little chef's hats....

  • @anthonyhaynes8738
    @anthonyhaynes8738 ปีที่แล้ว

    For anyone who knows: is the female and answer from this channel the same narrator for real science and real engineering

    • @anthonyhaynes8738
      @anthonyhaynes8738 ปีที่แล้ว

      Announcer

    • @terhuneb
      @terhuneb ปีที่แล้ว

      @@anthonyhaynes8738 I don't think so.

    • @ooooneeee
      @ooooneeee ปีที่แล้ว

      No they're different women but both great at narrating awesome videos.

  • @dasja9966
    @dasja9966 ปีที่แล้ว

    For short: Flourishing funghy fart ferociously to force the flourdough 2b fluffy.
    Great video again!

  • @VilladsClaes
    @VilladsClaes 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Okay, so the alkohol does not kill the yeast.

  • @mrgod5139
    @mrgod5139 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yeast didn’t make bread
    Yeast make destruction to wheat 😂 so that bread tastes like bread

  • @Aui_stormchaser
    @Aui_stormchaser ปีที่แล้ว

    Is a omax microscope good ?

  • @lydianlights
    @lydianlights ปีที่แล้ว

    haha fungi farts

  • @sava-smth
    @sava-smth ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I ate full packet of live yeast once and pucked at a photographer

  • @JamesMoore-ub3wb
    @JamesMoore-ub3wb ปีที่แล้ว

    Idk if it's just because I do drugs, or if I'm just retarded, but I have a question. Can you make bread from yeast collected from yeast infections? Cuz it's still yeast........right?😂😂

  • @kraneiathedancingdryad6333
    @kraneiathedancingdryad6333 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    🥖🥐🍞🍺🍄🍷

  • @pierreracine128
    @pierreracine128 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    yty

  • @lizardmilk
    @lizardmilk 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    We eat yeast pee and farts.