How is bread massproduced?
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.
Next, two machines shape the dough into
smaller loaves.
It is wheeled into a warm damp rooom. Here the yeast makes gas bubbles. The bubbles push around inside the dough, causing it to
spread out and start to rise.
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.
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 and wrapped by machines.
This small booklet was photographed, designed, and printed at Washington University in St. Louis by Christian Del Rio. It’s purpose was to visually represent the process of bread production as part of an assignment for the class Word and Image II.