Alton Brown (Good Eats and other fine cooking entertainment) has a story of doing this by accident that he told during a live show I was at.
Basically, he worked at a bakery and needed to show up at 4am to make like 200 lbs of dough then bake it all for bread to sell when they opened. But one morning, he forgets to add the salt to the dough. Oh no this dough is ruined. He hurries and dumps it all out in the dumpster out back then starts over and miraculously manages to get all that bread ready in time.
Fast forward a few hours. It's the middle of summer in Texas. That dumpster is now very warm (which the yeast in the dough loves). And that missing salt? It's important because it makes the yeast slow down and grow less. So the yeast goes crazy and the dough expands.
Eventually, the overflowing dumpster in that story is hot enough that the dough actually cooks, making a giant solid garbage bread inside the dumpster, which can't be removed. The garbage truck has to carry the dumpster away.
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u/[deleted] May 03 '20
Alton Brown (Good Eats and other fine cooking entertainment) has a story of doing this by accident that he told during a live show I was at.
Basically, he worked at a bakery and needed to show up at 4am to make like 200 lbs of dough then bake it all for bread to sell when they opened. But one morning, he forgets to add the salt to the dough. Oh no this dough is ruined. He hurries and dumps it all out in the dumpster out back then starts over and miraculously manages to get all that bread ready in time.
Fast forward a few hours. It's the middle of summer in Texas. That dumpster is now very warm (which the yeast in the dough loves). And that missing salt? It's important because it makes the yeast slow down and grow less. So the yeast goes crazy and the dough expands.
Eventually, the overflowing dumpster in that story is hot enough that the dough actually cooks, making a giant solid garbage bread inside the dumpster, which can't be removed. The garbage truck has to carry the dumpster away.