#Yeast

It’s no surprise that supermarkets have got in on the action and created their own sourdough loaves

From Pcgamer RSS Feed: Xbox creator becomes first console designer to bake bread using wild yeast illicitly collected from Microsoft campus

From Independent RSS Feed: 8 best supermarket sourdough loaves, taste-tested by a food editor (cloned)

I’m making bread with active dry yeast for the first time, and am unsure if it’s good to add to the flour now. The yeast is brand new and not expired.

Why do folks buy nice store bought yeast over and over instead of keeping a population of commercial yeast? You feed it just like a sourdough but easier - just chuck it in the fridge and pull it out and feed an hour before you use it.…

In 1946, Alfred Thomsen promised yeast food from sawdust at 5 cents a pound, with Herbert Hoover's endorsement.

They can pose a threat to human health — yeast infections are but one example. Scientists say not enough attention is paid to their ability to develop resistance to medications that treat them.

Scientists have uncovered how brewer’s yeast developed its unusually tiny centromeres, the DNA regions that guide chromosome separation during cell division.