Jan 8, 2023 · Fresh yeast, if you can get it, is still used pretty commonly for enthusiasts. You'll have to convert the amount but a lot of people prefer to use it over dried. It also depends on what kind of …

Jun 27, 2015 · Hello. I am an inexperienced homebrewer without much access to kits or solfites, so my process for my first badge of mead as been using a must of honey and water and fermenting it using …

Apr 9, 2024 · Adding too much yeast can cause flattened bread because there isn't enough flour to support all of the air bubbles the yeast produce. And more generally, eyeballing a baking recipe isn't …

Nov 17, 2020 · Hello homebrewers ;) So, here is the story. Today I found a some baking yeast in my kitchen cabinet and thought about throwing it away since I couldn't think of any use, and suddenly a …

Sep 25, 2023 · Can I use baker's yeast So I just bought this baking yeast, it say it's "Saccharomyces cerevisiae" but when I looked it up it showed up as brewer's yeast, so I thought I can use it for …

Sep 5, 2022 · Out of curiosity, does your grandmother's recipe call for specifically instant yeast? I ask because that seems like rather a lot of yeast for a batch that size. For comparison, at the bakery …

Sep 14, 2020 · Just started learning how to bake bread: why would anyone use active dry yeast instead of instant yeast?

May 21, 2020 · For the purposes of baking and general leavening, yeast strains for alcohol production and baking are functionally the same. In fact bread yeast is quite commonly used to make rum and …

Nov 9, 2021 · The yeast that worked best for me was WLP 400-410. Weighed out 2 oz of thick slurry and treated it like my bread yeast and it worked in the same time frames as instant yeast. I always …

Sep 6, 2023 · Typically bread is made with a certain percentage of yeast relative to the flour, and that number doesn’t vary too much* from baker to baker. I say that because commercial bakers aren’t …