Skip to main content

The beneficial bacteria that make delicious food - Erez Garty

1,802,217 Views

37,973 Questions Answered

TEDEd Animation

Let’s Begin…

Where does bread get its fluffiness? Swiss cheese its holes? And what makes vinegar so sour? These foods may taste completely different, but all of these phenomena come from microorganisms chowing down on sugar and belching up some culinary byproducts. Erez Garty shows how your kitchen functions as a sort of biotechnology lab, manned by microorganisms that culture your cuisine.

Create and share a new lesson based on this one.

About TED-Ed Animations

TED-Ed Animations feature the words and ideas of educators brought to life by professional animators. Are you an educator or animator interested in creating a TED-Ed Animation? Nominate yourself here »

Meet The Creators

  • Educator Erez Garty
  • Director Stuart Simpson
  • Artist Lauren Ellis
  • Narrator Addison Anderson
Avatar for Aliyah Bahadur
Lesson completed

what if wine was made differently? would it still be able to make bread rise?.

Comments are closed on this discussion.

Avatar for Joshua Azad
Lesson completed

it all depends on the one ingrident. if it was made diffenrt then it wouldnrt have to be switched

More from Actions and Reactions