Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. fresh loaves of bread - amine chakour/Shutterstock Ask most home bakers what yeast does, and you'll probably hear that it makes ...

I won’t delve into biology too much, but yeast, like us, is happy when it has food, water, oxygen, and a warm cozy environment. When yeast is happy, it begins to ferment. One by-product of this ...