Science of bread making

Click to enlarge Though chemistry teachers might have to regularly field questions about the chemistry of ‘Breaking Bad’ these days, baking bread is probably more likely to figure on a list of their recreational activities. Bread-making...

Experiment with growing yeast! Simple science to show kids that yeast is alive and how it makes bread grow.

Learn what makes bread rise and other interesting facts about bread with The Biology of Bread. Bring the kids into the kitchen and help them learn biology!

The kitchen is one of the best places to learn. This post has loads of fun Kitchen Science Experiments for kids to learn and explore!

Baking bread from scratch is something I thoroughly enjoy doing. Seeing your dough evolve into a real bread and eating that freshly baked bread, yum! Bread, whether it’s a flatbread, or a specific ingredient, is a recurring topic here on FoodCrumbles.com, there’s a lot to write about it. Below you can find all our posts related to bread, but if you’re looking for a more structured way to find what you’re looking for, use the mindmap below! Your browser is not able to display frames. Please…

Learn about the science of baking bread with this fun & easy loaf of bread in a bag recipe! Kids love this hands-on sensory science activity.

The other day while noodling around the internet looking for interesting bread-related websites, I stumbled across this site: Two Blue Books. The book featured on the site, Bread Science: the Chemistry and Craft of Making Bread, is by an professional artisan baker and baking instructor who also has a Ph.D. in chemistry. I was fascinated, and contacted her to get ahold of a copy. This book is great. When I got it I read it cover-to-cover in one evening. In many ways it feels like two books in…

Make your own bread with our easy bread in a bag recipe. Baking bread with kids is a fun kitchen science activity.

The Science of Bakery Products: Edwards, William P: 9780854044863: Books - Amazon.ca

Welcome back to Breadmaking 101. For those of you just tuning in, this column is all about bread, and how to make it yourself in your own home. Today is baking day, which means we're going to discuss how to bake the workhorse loaf into a gorgeous, chewy-crunchy-aromatically-hypnotizing marvel.