I'll be honest: I haven't always been good at making bread. Mixing flour and water is fine, and I think kneading by hand is fun. It's the yeast that causes trouble. Yeast is essential to good bread, ...

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 ...