Basic Trope: A dough or batter swells ridiculously huge, explodes, or turns into a Blob Monster due to an excess of yeast (the most common one), baking powder, or baking soda.
- Straight: Alice is trying to bake bread, but puts in too much yeast, resulting in the dough filling the room.
- Exaggerated: The dough explodes with the force of an atom bomb, but apparently all that caused it was a few milligrams of extra yeast.
- Downplayed: The dough expands a little bit more than it realistically would after too much yeast, but it doesn't fill the room.
- Justified: The yeast has been genetically engineered to create extreme amounts of gas.
- Inverted:
- Adding in too much yeast reverses the leavening process and causes the dough to shrink.
- The dough explodes due to not enough yeast.
- There's practically no yeast in Alice's bread, which is why it's so floppy and depressing.
- Subverted: Alice pours in what she thinks is yeast, and then the dough expands and fills the room. Then, it turns out that wasn't yeast — it was some other Applied Phlebotinum.
- Double Subverted: Alice adds what she thinks is yeast, and the dough fills the room. Then, it turns out that wasn't yeast... it was baking soda.
- Parodied: Yeast doesn't just fill things with air; it actually increases their size. As such, eating it can turn you into a giant.
- Zigzagged:
- Averted: Alice puts in the right amount of yeast, or too much yeast just expands the dough realistically.
- Enforced: "Alright, let's put some physical comedy in the cooking scene. The bread explodes! No, it doesn't need to be realistic."
- Lampshaded: "I didn't know yeast was that powerful!"
- Invoked: Bob sabotages Alice's bread dough by pouring yeast in.
- Exploited: Alice builds a trampoline out of dough.
- Defied: Alice makes sure to follow the recipe to the letter.
- Discussed: "...And when I put too much yeast in, the dough filled the room!"
- Conversed: "Cartoons seem to think yeast is magic or something!"
- Implied: We see the dough filling the room, but we don't learn what caused it.
- Deconstructed:
- Reconstructed:
- Played for Laughs:
- Played for Drama:
- Played for Horror:
Back to Impossible Leavening.
