Why Does Soap Wash Away Grease? | Kitchen Chemistry for Families
How does yeast make bread rise? Discover the kitchen chemistry behind tiny fungus chefs, stretchy dough, and gas bubbles in this fun homeschool STEM episode.
Right on your kitchen counter sits a bowl of flour and water that seems ordinary—until the invisible fungus chefs wake up. Inside a tiny packet of baker's yeast are billions of microscopic living cells waiting for warm water and sugar to start their feast. As they eat, they breathe out millions of carbon dioxide bubbles, acting like tiny bakers inflating miniature balloons deep inside the dough.
To trap that expanding gas, wheat…
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