May 06 2008
Best Bread Yeast - Part 0
Boy did I open Pandora’s box! I thought it would be a simple task to pick out yeast to use when I advance into baking bread that needs yeast. Oh how I was wrong. I recently went out to my local supermarket and picked up a bottle of Fleischmann’s Yeast thinking nothing of it. However, when I got home I thought I should do some research to find out what is the best yeast for bread making.
Searching the internet, I was not so lucky. I found dozens of types of yeast out there! What is a baker to do?
There is instant yeast, dry active yeast, cake yeast, compressed yeast… How is someone who doesn’t bake know which one is best? I found two helpful resources online: Yeast in Breadmaking and Wikipedia’s Baker’s Yeast article. But neither tell anything about which yeast is better for me!
Luckily for you, and me, yeast is cheap! Therefore, I am not that nervous buying all different types of yeast from Amazon and testing them out. I am going to go through rigorous tests to see if I can differentiate what yeasts are the best. I can’t wait!