yeast
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Everybody’s Making Sourdough in 2020 But My Sister’s Is the Nerdiest
There are a few universal truths in this world. Water is wet, the Earth is round, and there will always be things your siblings do better than you. In my case, my older sister Christine Elderkin-Campos bakes delicious homemade sourdough. As if that weren’t enough, she’s also taken to stenciling her creations with nerdy art.…
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How You Could Fool A Forensic Test With Flour And Yeast
There’s a basic test used to identify bodily secretions at crime scenes. It’s not the only test, but it is useful in primary investigations — unless you spill a lot of commercial flour around.
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It’s The Flour, Not Just The Yeast, That Makes For Perfect Bread
Why do some wheat dough balls rise well and bake into perfect loaves while others are flat and hard as a brick? A new study says it’s as much about the flour as the yeast.
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Happy Hour: Using Yeast DNA To Unlock A Better Beer
Beer may be as old as civilisation itself, but modern molecular biology could teach craft brewers some new tricks. Troels Prahl, a brewer and microbiologist with White Labs, is currently analysing the full DNA sequences of yeast from 2500 batches of beer in hopes of finding the yeast genes that explain why a lager becomes…