I was reading a comic on DeviantArt which depicted a girl being fed an uncooked ball of dough, and awhile later she begins to fill up. I googled this, and found this Yahoo Answers page. According to the answerer, since the yeast in dough ferments in a warm and wet environment, creating lots of air bubbles, eating raw dough would cause the yeast to rise in your stomach, bloating you up. I really want to know if this is a real thing. Because if so, my grocery store is about to run out of dough...
Dough Inflation?
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 13:40
#1
Dough Inflation?
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 15:30
#3
Well, the person who made the Yahoo Answers post appeared to be suffering from severe bloating... Though it is of course possible they were lying, what could they gain from that?
And there are people who say "oh it wont work because digestion will stop it before anything can happen". But they're always wrong. Diet Coke and Mentos was "debunked" as an inflation method but almost everyone who's tried it knows full well that it works. So who's to say this won't? I'm gonna get my hands on some Pillsbury biscuit dough or something similair at Kroger and see how it goes. I'll comment my results.
Fri, 06/24/2016 - 14:27
#4
Another Canadian Guy
Diet Coke and Mentos was "debunked" as an inflation method but almost everyone who's tried it knows full well that it works
This is untrue. The saliva in your throat causes those micro "craters" to dissolve almost immediately, let alone in the seconds it would take to reach the stomach. There may be a tiny amount of fizz, but certainly no amount that would inflate you.
Also, I don't believe (underlined because that's a guess) this would work because the acids in your stomach would kill the bacteria and break down the solid structure of the dough. The primary breakdown of starches (the primary source of energy in flour) happens in the small intestine over a long distance, and it's said that eating large amounts of straight dough is slightly harmful to the body because you're consuming a really unnaturally high amount of carbohydrates (this still applies to foods after they are baked but I can't remember the science of why it's less harmful.) The bloating is probably from the breakdown of carbs and the exchange of gas due to the digestion of the dough.
Sun, 06/26/2016 - 02:35
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Margeret Moonlught
I didn't know there was this much science involved in bloating.
like holy crap
Sun, 06/26/2016 - 15:42
#6
AirPump
As I've learned my dear, there's a hell of a lot of science in everything, if someone has been willing to do the science in the first place.
Fri, 06/24/2016 - 00:31
#7
Margeret Moonlught
See I would try this if I wanted to just straight up eat dough.
Which I don't.
Mon, 06/27/2016 - 14:07
#8
Well I just bought some frozen bread dough from Kroger. I'll post about how it goes.
Tue, 06/28/2016 - 00:03
#9
Margeret Moonlught
godspeed, you beautiful bastard.
I'm no physicist or chemist, but that seems like it wouldn't work well. I mean, dough doesn't really push very hard. You can squish it back down with almost no effort. I've never had a wad of dough "escape" from it's container while rising. I would think expanding dough wouldn't have the force required to push the stomach outward either. Still, it probably couldn't hurt to experiment, so good luck! Keep us filled in.
Fill 'er up!