# 344: Ant Yogurt and Fine Chocolate

Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-week-in-microbiology-1045713/344-ant-yogurt-and-fine-chocolate
Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-week-in-microbiology-1045713/344-ant-yogurt-and-fine-chocolate.md
Podcast: [This Week in Microbiology](https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-week-in-microbiology-1045713)
Published: 2025-11-08T09:48:49+00:00
Episode link: https://www.microbe.tv/twim/twim-344/
Audio file: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/twimshow/TWiM344.mp3?dest-id=53322
Processing state: not_requested
JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/this-week-in-microbiology-1045713/episodes/344-ant-yogurt-and-fine-chocolate
Duration seconds: 3982

## Resource

TWiM reveals the bacteria, acids, and enzymes behind yogurt made with ants, and a defined set of microbes that reproduces attributes of fine flavor chocolate fermentation Hosts: Vincent Racaniello , Michael Schmidt , and Petra Levin Guest: Mark O. Martin Become a patron of TWiM. Links for this episode: Making yogurt with ants (iScience) The Alchemist Restaurant How to make classic tuiles (MasterClass) Defined microbes for chocolate (Nat Micro) Microbial chocolatiers of fine flavour (Nat Micro) Blind taste every chocolate bar (YouTube) Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by Ronald Jenkees and used with permission. Send your microbiology questions and comments to twim@microbe.tv

## Actions

- request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/this-week-in-microbiology-1045713/episodes/344-ant-yogurt-and-fine-chocolate/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.
- read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-week-in-microbiology-1045713/344-ant-yogurt-and-fine-chocolate.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.

A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed.

## Transcript

Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.