Sourdough bread is a microbial mystery
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We still don't understand the yeasts and bacteria that make sourdough possible.
Baking is hard. Baking sourdough bread is even harder, because you have to rely on wild yeasts and bacteria to make your bread rise. But we don't know much about how these tiny organisms work. So researchers at NC State University collected hundreds of sourdough starters from all over the world to try to understand the secret lives of microbes.
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SCI NC is a local public television program presented by PBS NC
Sci NC is supported by a generous bequest gift from Dan Carrigan and the Gaia Earth-Balance Endowment through the Gaston Community Foundation.
Sourdough bread is a microbial mystery
Special | 6m 24sVideo has Closed Captions
Baking is hard. Baking sourdough bread is even harder, because you have to rely on wild yeasts and bacteria to make your bread rise. But we don't know much about how these tiny organisms work. So researchers at NC State University collected hundreds of sourdough starters from all over the world to try to understand the secret lives of microbes.
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Sci NC is supported by a generous bequest gift from Dan Carrigan and the Gaia Earth-Balance Endowment through the Gaston Community Foundation.