How is bread
mass produced?
Sifted flour is
piped mixed
into a huge electric mixing bowl called a hopper and
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 out rise
and start to
Now the dough, puffier than before, is wheeled to a machine that
mixes it with salt & vitamins
It then goes back into 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 moving belt through huge ovens, where people watch it through small windows.
It emerges once baked, is
COOLED, SLICED, & WRAPPED by machines.