Senior Food Editor and baking expert Making Gore details her 5 golden rules of yeast for successful baking every time.

Premium soda crackers are also known as saltines and over the years the names have conflated, leaving many to wonder if there ...

If you've just started a new baking project and are all out of active yeast, but did find some instant dry yeast, don't fret.

Yeast and baking powder are both commonly used to get a good rise from pizza dough, but which one works best? Here's what an ...

Since yeast often comes in easy packets, you might be tempted to just toss it into your dough without activating it. Here's what happens to your bake if you do.

A little cell with a lot of power. Yeasts are single-celled organisms in the fungus family. There are more than 1,500 species of them on Earth.While each individual yeast is only one cell, they ...

Colonies of baker’s yeast, or Saccharomyces cerevisiae, pictured under a microscope. Yeast don’t grow this way in bread dough: The images are from a 2016 study in the lab of UB biologist Paul Cullen ...

Baking a loaf of yeast bread on a 90+ degree day isn't ideal. And then waiting until it's completely cool to slice is ...

The yeast, by contrast, can be handed out and grown as they have been for centuries. As Ostrov says, “Baker’s yeast bridges the gap between lab research and household products.” ...

S. cerevisiae , more commonly known as baker’s yeast, gobbles up the sugars in plants and turns them into ethanol, which can then be mixed with gasoline to create a cleaner-burning fuel.

Humans and baker's yeast have more in common than meets the eye, including an important mechanism that helps ensure DNA is copied correctly, reports a pair of studies. The findings visualize for ...