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Re:Baking bread using 4,500 year old yeast from Ancient Egyp... by thinkingemote on Thursday November 04, 2021 @07:35AM (#29105770)
As an aside, and because we are talking about yeast, McDonald's burger buns are not really dough based risen bread. It's baked foam. Like they squirt it out all foamy and then bake it. (It's possible that no yeast is used, but I'm not sure)
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Re:Baking bread using 4,500 year old yeast from Ancient Egyp... by phonypc on Thursday November 04, 2021 @12:47PM (#29109457)
Yeast is used, and the process isn't any different than supermarket white buns.

Industrial white bread processes do tend to involve very high speed/power mixing that incorporates more air and leads to a smaller crumb structure than traditional bread, but it's certainly not squirted out as a foam.

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