Fermentation

Putting microbes in your food on purpose

Then we eat the food!
We let microbes live in our food
Kombucha
Sauerkraut
Pickles
Yogurt
Miso
Tempeh
Kimchi
Examples
What about cheese, bread, beer, wine?
How disgusting is it?
Preserves it by changing the food (pH) or by growing
all through it and keeping other harmful microbes
from growing.
Makes it taste in a way that we like
Does something that we like to the food
What is fermentation good for?
Yeast fungus makes a gas in dough that
makes the bread rise.
Yeast fungus makes alcohol from sugar
in sweet drinks.
Lactobaccilus bacteria preserves milk as
yogurt.

Investigating Fermentation
Sourdough Bacillus
In the larger beaker mix the
contents of the small beaker into
an equal amount of water.
Add dry flour into the larger
beaker until it seems like bread
dough.
Put your names on the larger
beaker
Clean the small beaker and the
spoon
Record observations about smell
and consistency.
Yogurt Bacillus
Fill the test tube half way with
milk
Add approximately 5 ml of leite
fermentado into it.
Swirl the test tube
Put your names on test tube
Record observations about
smell and consistency.