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BettyR
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Most grocery stores sell the different types of yeast, check several in your area and see what they have.
I'm just learning about bread myself and what I have been reading about yeast is that the difference between them is the method in which they have been dried.
Instant yeast is dried in a gentle method that leaves more of the yeast spores alive than with other drying methods. While it is the same yeast as any other yeast it just take less time for the yeast colony to reproduce sufficient numbers to rise the dough because you started out with more live spores to begin with.
You can use whatever kind of yeast is available to you; you will just need to adjust the times to compensate for the slower growth of the non-instant yeast if that is what you use.
Betty
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BettyR
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You are right; he doesn't say that instant and rapid rise are different but that instant and regular active dry are different. He goes into a long explanation about the difference being in the way that they are dried.
He says that the instant yeast is dried in a gentle method that leaves more of the yeast cells alive than with other drying methods. While it is the same yeast as any other yeast (as far as the species goes) you start out with more live yeast cells with the instant yeast so your yeast will start working faster than regular active dry yeast. And unlike regular active dry yeast you don’t have to bloom the instant yeast – you can mix it in with the dry ingredients.
I’m a rabid Alton Brown fan and record his shows on my TVO and watch them again and again. I have learned so much because of the long drawn out explanations he gives about how and why things are the way they are.
"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf" - George Orwell.
"What we do, more than anything we say, reveals what we truly value the most." - An Unknown Soldier
