How to make bread, with science! | Do Try This At Home | We The Curious

What is gluten? How does yeast help dough to rise? Heather and Joel of the Live Science Team show you how to make bread in this tasty experiment to try at home.

Quick method:
Mix 500g Flour, 7g yeast, teaspoon of salt, 350mL of water.
Knead for 5 minutes
Rise/Prove for 30 minutes
Knead for 30 seconds
Prove for 2 hours
Bake at 200 C for 25 minutes, followed by 250 C for 10 minutes.
Leave to cool, then eat!

This video was presented by: Heather Nichol & Joel Sanderson, Live Science Team
Produced by: Ross Exton, Live Science Video Producer, and Seamus Foley, Big Screen Producer.

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Special thanks to the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Holmes Hine Memorial Fund for supporting this video.

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