
Yeast
Secretly Incredibly Fascinating
The Dangers of Distilling Alcohol
Yeast is playing a dangerous game. It's like I'm filling my own space with alcohol and I can't live in too much of it. Yeast makes that bread rise because you put it in and it eats the sugars and then it releases the two ingredients carbon dioxide and ethanol alcohol. The carbon dioxide lifts the dough and then also inside of a hot oven all that alcohol just burns up, turning into more gases. Yeah this alcohol is tasty let's make it harder and also burn more.
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