Team:BHSF/Implementation
Proposed implementation
The target clients of our project are people who bake at home and frozen dough factories, mainly for those who bake at home.
Our envisage
1.home-bakers
Over-fermentation is the key problem of baking. Our yeast goes into dormancy after a certain period of time, so people don’t need to worry not being able to end fermentation in appropriate time. They csn just leave the dough aside after fermentation begins, and study or work whole-heartedly.
Whenever they return to the kitchen, they will not find the dough over-fermented. In this way , the yeast can help green hand control the fermentation time, enjoy baking more, gain confidence, and reduce failures as well (and save you from eating a lot of ‘stones’ haha).
2.Frozen dough industries
As for frozen dough factories, owing to our yeast goes into dormancy automatically after fermentation, factories don’t have to freeze the dough, this will maintain the taste and structure of the bread, thus help provide higher quality .
How will we implement our project
After we prove our circuit can work well, we will first have to report our project to competent government departments to get permission, and to have our products’ safety tested.
Once we are allowed to use the yeast to make bread, we’ll invite professional bakers and ordinary people to taste our bread to have their feedback. If the feedback is mostly positive, the yeast will be commercialized, should we go even further, we’ll seek for methods to lower the production expense.
Safety and challenges
We have already taken food safety into consideration, and we’re highly aware of this, that’s why we gave up our first idea of letting the yeast to produce poison to kill itself because it might not be safe enough.
All strains we use in our project are safe to the human body and our circuit won’t produce any harmful substance.
However, through our survey and human practices, we realized the concern from the public on gene engineering, many people still refuse gene-edited products because of their unfamiliarity with this field. In order to solve this problem, we have already lectured students at different ages and promoted synthetic biology in many occasions. In the future, we plan to make more videos and give some lectures to the public if possible.
