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Fresh Yeast

Postby flamehawk » Sat Feb 15, 2014 9:15 pm

Gents,
I was at my local store today. i back onto a rural area and they had fresh yeast. Its like a paste and i asked what people use it for and the response was bread. An i better buying fresh yeast or dried?

I bought a box of bakers yeast as thats what you all seem to use.

ian
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Re: Fresh Yeast

Postby kiwikeg » Sat Feb 15, 2014 9:44 pm

Its Fresh bakers yeast,back in the day lots of the tried and proven recipes originally called for that but most guys switched to dried yeast as its more readily available.
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Re: Fresh Yeast

Postby Andy » Sat Feb 15, 2014 9:50 pm

keep in mind there is more yeast in dried yeast- ie 100g of dried yeast it more then 100g of yeast paste/cake
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Re: Fresh Yeast

Postby flamehawk » Sat Feb 15, 2014 10:37 pm

OK. so there is no benefit?
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Re: Fresh Yeast

Postby Andy » Sat Feb 15, 2014 10:43 pm

IMHO i would say that there is no benefit. the shelf life is only a week or so, you need to use more, but someone who has used it before might be able to give a different perspective.
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