Yeast

Suddenly this common item has become a hot commodity in all quarantined bakers kitchen. Everyone seems to be BAKING so much lately and it is showing a shortage of yeast in grocery stores. However it has not always been this way. People seem to just like to panic buy anything nowadays.

If you do not know, yeast is actually teeny tiny microorganisms that are apart of the fungus family. Which sounds absolutely disgusting when you think about it. But yeast is in fact very much alive and you can kill it if you are not using it properly. Red Star which is a yeast company has an entire page dedicated to informing people what yeast really is and how it works. Yeast is needed to ferment what ever you are making so that it can rise and expand.

Yeast is used in many different things from bread to beer.