Category - Food Microbiology Basics

sauerkraut, ready for fermentation
Food Microbiology Basics

Lactic acid fermentation in food

Yogurt, sauerkraut, pickles, none of these products would exist without lactic acid fermentation. This is a series of chemical reactions that transforms your ingredients into something pretty different (and delicious)...

July 3, 2018
5 min read
poolish plus dough
waffles

Yeast fermentation process & its products

Updated: 3-Jan-2016 Science is everywhere when you’re in the kitchen. Just think of your bread dough bubbling away and expanding while proofing. Or a beer in the works. You might not even recognize the science, so...

January 3, 2016
7 min read