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TIL that viral take about salt killing yeast is mostly garbage, and a batch of dough in my Houston kitchen proved it
3 weeks back I saw a clip with 400k likes saying salt and yeast never touch or your bread dies, and I nodded along like everyone else. Then last Friday I got lazy during a bake in my Houston kitchen and dumped both into the same bowl at once instead of mixing them apart first. The dough rose fine, maybe even better, because the salt barely slows anything at the amount we actually use. I looked it up after and the whole panic traces back to a test where someone used like 10 times the normal salt. So what got you to flip on a baking take you used to swear by?
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stella12122d ago
It's the same thing with those "you must proof your yeast in warm water first" rules... my grandma just threw everything in a bowl and her bread always worked. I feel like half of what we "know" about baking comes from one person's weird test that got repeated until it turned into gospel. Same thing happens with food safety stuff, like people freaking out over leaving butter out or whatever, when the real risk was always way smaller than the internet makes it sound. We just grab onto these rules because they feel safe, then never check if they're actually true.
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