Yeast Unit Reflection

The yeast unit went well. There weren’t too many problems and everything that was made was delicious. My favorite was the no knead bread. One thing that I learned about yeast during this unit was that it was alive and if the water was too cold or too warm the yeast would not work correctly. The water that was used to make the doughs needed to be lukewarm for everything to work. The pizza was the first thing that was made. Some problems that I had with the pizza was that when we made the dough our group let it sit in a little too much olive oil. Another problem was that our dough was too airy and came out too puffed. It probably should have been formed a little better. I would have also liked to put more cheese and less sauce on my pizza next time. I did not put enough cheese on it and it turned out spotty and more of sauce on bread. The next thing that was made was the pretzels. They were also very good, except for a few problems. One problem that didn’t affect it’s taste was that I had a tough time forming the pretzels into a twisted shape. They never came out how I would have liked them to. Also after we took the pretzels out of the oven, we put a little too much butter on them. Less butter would have made them better. Our dough was good and the process of cooking them went smoothly. During the unit we made two batches of no knead bread. Both sets of dough were made on the same day, but only one of the doughs was cooked that day. The other dough was left in the fridge to sit over the weekend. Although the first batch of bread was very good, the second batch was even better. No real problems occurred during the making of either batch of bread. Nick B.