November 3, 2009 - 12:23pm
Fresh Yeast Making Breads that has live Yeast smell
I heard the fresh yeast is better taste than the dry active yeast and instant yeast. I baked some milk breads with the fresh yeast two days ago. The milk breads rised very nice however, they have the live yeast smell. I feel it is a strong smell. Later, I changed to dry active yeast baking the same type of breads. It doesn't have the strong live yeast smell.
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JC, best results are using SAF yeast, combined with a sponge that goes overnight. Better still is using a starter, plus yeast. SAF doesn't smell like the other yeasts.
If you are using one step, yeast, water flour, knead and bake, you will get yeast smell, by going with a two part process using 30% sponge for 6 hours or overnight, then adding rest of ingredients plus 1% yeast by flour weight, you will have good results...
Thanks for your comment Nickisafoodie. I bought the fresh from Surfas. You are right, I was using the one step method (milk, yeast, flour..etc.)->knead->fermented->shaped->baked. When you mentioned 'sponge' - did you use the fresh to make sponge or use sourdough starter to make 'sponge'? If you use the fresh yeast to make 'sponge', do you use all portion of the fresh yeast from recip or do you use 1/2 of the fresh and another 1/2 for dough? Thanks..JC
Dan..I think the yeast was still good. I bought it from Surfas in two days ago before using it. I had made sure the fresh yeast was not sitting too long in the store. One sales associate told me that the yeast was arrived one day. This means the fresh yeast should be less than 1 week old when I used it. I had use fresh yeast to make milk breads before. It didn't have strong smell of fresh yeast. I was thinking whether I substituted brown sugar from the original recipe requried white granulate sugar.