For the first class this week, we were tasked to bring bread to class to learn how bread is made. I baked and brought Crescent Rolls from Trader Joe’s, which contained wheat flour, water, palm oil, cane sugar, baking powder, salt, sunflower oil, and xanthan gum.
This week we baked bread, which I was really excited about because I'm really into baking cakes. I've only made bread once before and it was Hokkaido Milk Bread, so the process was very different from the no-knead method. I mixed flour, salt, yeast, and water together and left it out overnight to rise.
Part I
Two subjects during this Thursday’s lecture intrigued me— salt and bees— so I took a shot in the dark and searched to see if they happen to be interconnected with each other. To my surprise, they did!
Part 1: After this week’s exciting class on bread, the topic that I wanted to explore further was GM technology and GMO crops, specifically in relation to corn. I’ll talk about GMO and its background information first, and then move on to its relationship to corn.
This week we sat down together and enjoyed some proper bread as we watched Cooked. It made me think how simple and amazing it is that food can bring people together. Throughout the episode, I was indulged by facts and information of food, and I realized how little I knew about food.
During class on January 16th, we watched clips of a Netflix show called Cooked. The episode discussed the role of air in bread. Pockets of air formed inside the bread we eat contain gas that we can taste in the back of our throats, affecting the flavor. I found it very intriguing that flour and water can not sustain a human being for long. However, after baking the two into bread, it is able to keep someone alive. Some part of the baking process contains an element of life. This revelation was astonishing to me.