What is the difference between awakening and fermentation?

Fermentation: the process of allowing yeast to fully reproduce and produce gas to promote dough expansion.

Wake up: make the mixed noodles easier to process and the dough smoother.

2, the process is different:

Fermentation: Cover the dough and put it in a warm place to ferment until it expands to two or three times its size.

Wake up: let the stirred noodles stand for a period of time before further processing or cooking.

3, the principle is different:

Fermentation: When yeast converts starch into sugar and consumes it in the aerobic environment inside the dough, it will release carbon dioxide gas. At this time, the volume of dough will expand and rise.

Proofing: After the dough is kneaded or shaped, protein molecules in the dough have time to relax and reconstruct, which is a process of releasing stress and reconstructing the spatial structure of protein molecules. Through the baking process, the twisted and broken network structure in the dough was remolded, and the protein in the dough returned to its proper spatial configuration, which was well stretched. After baking, the dough will be more chewy, softer and smoother.