Tape Ketan

Explanation Text

Tape is the result from the fermentation by yeast. One of the most popular tape is sticky tape. Sticky tape is the traditional food that most widely consumed by Indonesian people especially Sundanese people.

Tape was made by fermented yeast for 2-3 days with the help of bacteria saccharomyces sereviseae, mocur chlamidosporous, and endomycopsis filoeligera.

Initial process from making sticky tape preceded by soak glutinous rice about 3 hours. Then remove and wash thoroughly than steamed until cooked. Lift and chill until cold. Then mixed with yeast to taste then wrap with bananas leaves a little. After that, put in the covered place for 3 days.

In the fermentation process, the bacteria was changed the glucose into the alcohol and because of that the fermentation process was happens without oxygen.