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Quote: Depending on who you ask, it is somewhat more complicated than sending a man to the moon or so simple that prehistoric man somehow managed to pull it off. If you mix flour and water it will start to grow yeast, yeast is everywhere, couldn't keep it out if you wanted to. It has to be...

I will also point out that if anybody wants to bake every day or every couple of days; it becomes cost and time effective to grow your own yeast, i.e. sourdough. I stuck with it until I made it work but since I generally only bake once a week it was just not worth the trouble.

Just took my weekly bread out of the oven with this post fresh in mind so decided to crunch the numbers. I'm a professional bean counter. : ) The rolls on the left have two teaspoons of yeast and the ones on the right have one teaspoon. A pound of yeast is about a quart which is 192 teaspoons...

A pound of yeast will fill up a quart jar. Think about how many of those little envelopes it would take to do that. It will keep at least a year, maybe twice that stored in the freezer. I order mine from King Arthur since I've never been able to find it locally.