Comment on Could you grind up a loaf of bread back into a flour and make a new loaf of bread?
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 3 days ago
Not really, no - entropy is one-way at the macro scale.
The flour absorbed water, and combined with kneading, produced gluten.
Grinding it all up wouldn’t reverse that process - it would just be ground up bread.
deranger@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
With enough energy you certainly could, even if that meant breaking everything down to their constituent parts chemically and doing stuff like reconstructing proteins from amino acids.