no its not
Yeast is a fungus. I wouldn't imagine it would feel anything like play dough.
Yeast dough is dough (basically a mixture of flour, water, salt) to which yeast (a form of fungi) has been added to cause the dough to 'rise', add in dimension by filling the dough with carbon dioxide given off by the yeast. Dough without yeast does not expand.
The yeast cells in bread dough ferment sugars and produce gas (carbon dioxide). This makes the dough rise.
Yeast turns some of the sugar in bread dough into alcohol and carbon dioxide. The carbon dioxide fills the bread with a lot of little bubbles. That makes it easy to eat. Without yeast bread would be like eating raw spaghetti.
Yeast is added to bread along with moisture and sugar, and the dough is kept in a moist, warm environment. During this rising time, the yeast consumes the sugar in the dough and release CO2 gas, which is trapped in the dough and causes the dough to rise. When the dough is baked, the yeast is killed, but the bubbles created by the gas remain.
Yeast. The correct answer, is yeast.
To allow the dough to rise so you get a lighter, less dense end product.
The yeast consumes the natural sugars in the dough and causes bubbles to form. This causes the dough to rise. It's being blown up by the yeast.
Yes, exactly. The gases cause the dough to rise.
Yeast added to bread dough produces a gas, and this causes the dough to rise, making the finished bread look like a sponge.
Yeast is used to make bread by fermenting the dough.
Yes, yeast is typically needed to make pizza dough as it helps the dough rise and gives it a light and airy texture.