Step 2: Spray both slices very lightly with water
Step 3: Seal the slices in separate pieces of cling wrap or separate sandwich bags.
Step 4: Place the wrapped bread slices somewhere warm and wait for the mold to grow. Once the difference between the two slices is significant enough, remove them and inspect the results.
Step 5: Examine the mold colonies with a magnifying glass. Note that caution must be taken not to breathe in the dust from the mold colonies as it can cause medical complications.
What is Happening?
The mold colonies have ended up on the bread either from landing on the bread from the air, or as a result of being collected from the bench in the process of wiping. The difference in the quantity and types of mold present show that wiping the bread on the bench results in far greater mold growth as well as diversity.
Possible Extension: School Activity to Test Disinfectants
This bread mold experiment can be extended to test different brands of disinfectants. Student work benches such as those found in secondary school science laboratories are easily as dirty as a standard kitchen bench.
To test different brands of disinfectants, divide a standard school bench into sections, one for each brand of disinfectant. Clean the bench section in accordance with the instructions on the bottle of disinfectant. Then wipe the treated area with a slice of bread and keep the bread as previously described. Repeat this process for as many different brands of disinfectant as are available.
yes the bread molds with the cheese because cheese molds so they both mold together.
Your purpose is to determine which foods are more susceptible to growing mold.
bread, cheese
No. Penicillin was originally found on bread mold, not cheese mold. Not that moldy bread will have enough penicilllin to 'cure' anything.
tomatoes
Mold can also grow on cheese.
No. If you leave cheese out in the warm then mold will grow on it in a few hours. Bread on the other hand would take a couple of day.This is wrong! I did a project and grew mold on cheese and it took a week. Maybe the bacteria will start to form but you will not see it with the naked eye. Also it depends on the cheese, i did mozzarella, but if it was a really soft cheese ... maybe. But defiantly cheese will grow mold faster than Bread.
Moisture and warmth are ideal conditions for promoting mold growth on bread.
mold please grow here!!
mold bread has green fungus growing out of it. stale means old but stiff and hard...i think
on old bread for sure.
Mold does grow inside the bread loaf. The visible parts of the mold are only visible on the surface.