HardLong Riddle
What must be in the oven yet cannot be baked? Grows in the heat yet shuns the light of day? What sinks in water but rises with air? Looks like skin, but is fine as hair?
Riddle
What must be in the oven yet cannot be baked? Grows in the heat yet shuns the light of day? What sinks in water but rises with air? Looks like skin, but is fine as hair?
Choose an answer
A.mold
B.sourdough starter
C.mushroom spores
D.yeast
Hint: It's a word with 5 letters, starting with "Y".
Answer
yeast
Why this is the answer
Yeast goes into oven-baked bread without itself being 'baked' as food, ferments and grows in warm darkness, and makes dough rise with the gas it produces even though the yeast itself settles out in liquid.
This riddle is filed under Long Riddles and rated Hard.