Fungi and Food(1)


Apr. 28, 2009

Do you know?

What are made from fungus’ fermentation ?


  • I agree with miaol.I think those include soy sauce,wines,cake and bread,but don't include pickles,acidophilus milk and vinegar.
    Apr. 29, 2009

     

  • I don't think that acidophilus milk is made from fungus' fermentation.It is made from are lactobacillus' fermentation. Lactobacillus is a bacterium.

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  • soy sauce,pickles,wines,acidophilus milk
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  • Make the Baozi-steamed bun with meat stuffing with
    leaven dough.
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Apr. 28, 2009

Baozi of my mother's

 
leaven dough   Baozi
Apr. 28, 2009

Experimental exploration

Add one spoon of sugar and one pack of barm into one cup of warm water and stir. Then pour this liquid into a transparent glass bottle or mineral water bottle and fill with some warm water. Seal this bottle by one flat balloon . Put this bottle on the windowsill of class room under the sun and watch out the changes of bottle and balloon everyday.
Each member of group prepares one set of experimental appliance for experiment themselves.
To prepare experimental appliance on MAR.27,2009.
To make experiment and observe progress on MAR.29,2009.

Apr. 28, 2009

The pictures of Experiment

   
Mar.31,12.38   Mar.31,12.45   Mar.31,14.14
Apr. 28, 2009

The pictures(4,5,6)

   
Apr.1,8:11   Apr.1,12:47   Apr.1,16:30
Apr. 28, 2009

The pictures(7,8)

 
Apr.2,12:28   Apr.3,12:06
Apr. 29, 2009

sugar:yeast=1:1 /one bottle cap

  • Just experimented

    • Yeast and sugar is not completely dissolved and there is no change in the balloon. 【When shaking the bottle the balloon will immediately muster, and perhaps when I shaking the bottle, the yeast and sugar are dissolved., why the balloon muster? I guess the reason is that the sugar and yeast produce carbon dioxide】

  • Five minutes later

    The balloon is formerly bigger than some, the liquid doesn’t change obviously.

  • 20 minutes later

    The balloon doesn’t change obviously, but the yeast and the sugar have produced one kind of froth.

  • One hour and 30 minutes later

    The froth becomes increasingly higher, the balloon is also even bigger.

  • 22 hours later

    The froth has vanished, the liquid becomes clearer; the balloon also becomes smaller.

  • 24 hours later

    The balloon becomes shrivelled, and the liquid is even clearer, and there are some sediments.

  • 46 hours later

    It is really fantastic that the balloon is engulfed into the bottle.

  • 72 hours later

    The balloon continues increasing, and the liquid is even clearer, and nearly white.

Apr. 29, 2009

Phenomenon

  • Four bottle caps sugar and one cap dries yeast

    The fourth figure on the left in the picture.

  • beginning

    Yeast, sugar and water has not dissolved completely, and there is no change in the balloon.

  • Five minutes later

    In the bottle the yeast, the sugar and the water dissolve, the balloon blows up slightly. (discovery! After shaking the thermos, the balloon can blow up is bigger, I believe it should be some kind of gas produced, and caused the balloon to blow up)

  • Ten minutes later

    The balloon did not change significantly, but it produced a yellow bubble on the top of the solution (The appearance looks a little like the soybean milk, once I had thought sold it, hey hey...)

  • One hour later

    The balloon is slightly larger, and yellow bubble gradually increased.

  • Two hours later

    The balloon muster greater and yellow bubbles rise significantly, (...a little scary...).

  • Twenty-four hours later

    The bubble has already disappeared, but it leaves the trace on the bottle surface, the balloon heaves greater. (The limit that balloon has seemed to get, has had the tendency to blow up all)

  • Forty-eight hours later

    The balloon gradually becomes smaller, and the material solution sediments in the bottom, water has become clear.

  • Seventy-two hours later

    The solution in the bottle is even clearer, but the balloon is shrunken and deflated into the bottle.

  • N hours later

    Balloon in the bottle gradually becomes larger, the solution almost becomes water, and sediments become condensate on the bottom.

Apr. 29, 2009

Summary

No. 1 After gradually changing in the balloon, this kind of gas suspected is carbon dioxide gas, it is proved that it’s true in the experiment
No.2 the balloon shrinking in the bottle, I believe the gas in the bottle is carried off by the sediments ,which causes the gas in the bottle fewer, and it is different with the ambient pressure, as for the ambient pressure, the balloon shrink in the bottle, and it is getting bigger and bigger. But I am waiting for the result of the experiments.
No.3 I discover that the effect was less obvious than before, I believe it is the gas of the bottle changing.
No.4 the solution smells very bad .although it is maybe the alcohol, it is a little different from the smell. It seems that the sugar deteriorate

Apr. 28, 2009

Phenomenon of my experiment

   
First I add 5 gram sugar and 4 gram barm into the warm water. Then I cover balloon at bottle opening. It reacts so quickly that balloon has been inflated even before I take up the camera. , which show   More and more foam is rising.   The foam almost overflows in less than 10 mins.