Happy New Year, everyone 🙂 Baking season is still on, and I thought today I should focus on yeast as a critical ingredient of recipes for baked goods.
If you do a lot of baking with yeast, I suggest you try to buy yeast in bulk instead of small packets, as a money-saving and time-saving technique. Some brick-and-mortar stores as well as Amazon sell vacuum-sealed 1lb and 2lb instant dry yeast “bricks.” Since I bake with yeast quite a bit, I like to get a few of these at a time and store them in the fridge, one open and placed in a glass container, the others as “bricks” with the seals intact. My research indicates that you can also store yeast in the freezer, but I have never tried this method.
I buy 2lb bags of Red Star active dry yeast (made by LeSaffre) from Restaurant Depot regularly. Same size is also available on Amazon a lot cheaper than what I used to pay for the small packets at Aldi, for example. You can also try to find 1lb packs of Red Star fresh yeast, if this is what you like to use in baking. I used to find these at Restaurant Depot, too, but I haven’t seen them there recently.
I have never had issues with instant dry yeast bought in bulk. The quality of the yeast made by LeSaffre (Red Star, Saf Instant Red, Saf Instant Gold) is amazing. You can check out my previous review of Red Star yeast here.
Do you bake with yeast regularly? Let me know in the comments, and stay tuned for my comprehensive post on a different kind of baking: sourdough baking. 🙂 You are also welcome to check out my previous post on baking your own bread here.
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