Chef (baking)
Encyclopedia
A chef is type of bread starter
. It is a piece of dough taken from a previous batch used to inoculate a new dough with yeast
s and Lactobacilli. The term chef is French
. It may also be called chief or head.
Bread starter
A pre-ferment is a fermentation starter used in bread making, and is referred to as an indirect method. It may also be called mother dough....
. It is a piece of dough taken from a previous batch used to inoculate a new dough with yeast
Yeast
Yeasts are eukaryotic micro-organisms classified in the kingdom Fungi, with 1,500 species currently described estimated to be only 1% of all fungal species. Most reproduce asexually by mitosis, and many do so by an asymmetric division process called budding...
s and Lactobacilli. The term chef is French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
. It may also be called chief or head.