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W
hen I was young and
crazy, I endured the grueling training
to become a Naval Aircrewman.
This hellish school consisted
of an amazing array of tortures like
being pushed from helicopters into
floating knots of parachute cord in
the Gulf of Mexico. One morning
our instructors lined us up on the
beach in our bathing suits. I knew
this was going to get ugly when
I saw several rubber-clad Navy
divers in boats loitering out in the
roiling surf. Our instructor smiled
and told us that this was a rip tide
area. He then ordered us to jump
in, swim out 20 yards and swim
back. I, like the others, felt the
undercurrent pull my legs out to
sea as I tried to swim back.
Exhausted, I eventually stopped
as the current took me out to the
rubber boats where the screaming
crew threw nets dragging us to
a safer surf. Later, as we all bellyflopped
on the beach huffing, we
were told that sometimes you must
work with nature to succeed and
if we had swum back diagonally
to the shore, we would have made
it. Now, after 23 years of owning
a pizzeria, I know that sometimes
you need control and sometimes
you must work with nature. There's
no better example of this than
making pizza with sourdough.
Doughba Fett
As restaurant owners and managers,
we all strive to make the best
product around. Our tolerance for
uncontrolled behavior and actions
is minimal. Sometimes our control
leads us to create a product that
is very predictable while running
through dough shifts that are
merely transactional. With sourdough
pizza, we give in to nature,
to the little bacteria and, like the
tides of the ocean, we work with
nature to get the best benefit of
taste and digestion.
What is sourdough? Well, the
short answer is that you rise your
dough using natural yeasts and
bacteria. Once you set a convenient
sourdough schedule, you'll see the
oven spring puff of the cornicione
(crust) and taste the heightened
acidity and complex flavors. This
will be your expression, your artistic
edge. So, what is sourdough
again? Here is the long answer.
Yeast lives everywhere, and the
key is to capture the living yeast
with flour and water. When flour
and water are mixed, they trigger
enzymes that break down the
flour starches into simple sugars,
producing carbon dioxide (gas) and
ethanol alcohol. Once this yeast
colony is fed continuously, it will
rise and fall under the right conditions
of time and temperature. It
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