How Bread Is Made by Amanda Reiter
Sifted flour is piped into a huge electric mixing bowl called a hopper and mixed with yeast and warm water. It comes out of the hopper as a
large ball of dough
It is wheeled into a warm damp room. Here the yeast makes gas bubbles. The bubbles push around inside the dough, causing it to
spread and rise out
Now the dough, puffier than before, is wheeled to a machine that mixes it with
salt and vitamins
It then goes back to the
warm, damp room to rise more.
Next, two machines shape the dough into smaller loaves. After it rises for a third time, it glides on a movingbelt through
huge ovens where people watch it through small windows.
It emerges once baked, is
cooled, sliced and wrapped by machines.
Amanda Reiter Word and Image II Sam Fox 2016