Pizza Today - February 2024 - 49

By Audrey Kelly
E
veryone's ideal pizza will look, taste
and feel diff erently. Th e key to building
your perfect pie is understanding how
to utilize diff erent dough methods and
how they will change your fi nal product,
picking the right tomatoes, cheese
and toppings as well as when and how
you add ingredients to your pizza.
The Dough
Let's start with the dough. Depending on what
style of pizza you are making, the ingredients and
dough process will be diff erent. Th e one thing
that all doughs should have in common though, is
proper fermentation. It is when the proteins in fl our
combine with water to create gluten. Yeast (whether
commercial or natural) is added and consumes the
simple sugars in the dough to create carbon dioxide
bubbles. With the addition of salt, a stronger bond
and gluten net form, causing the dough to rise and
age. If you think about it, the slower and longer this
process is, the resulting crust will be more dynamic
by creating lots of airy bubbles and fl avor in the
dough. Th at being said, you don't want to over ferment
dough. Once there is no more fresh fl our for
the yeast to oxidize, the dough will turn fl at and
sour, thus not rising. Th at is why it is important to
pick the right fl our and hydration for your fermentation
process and time.
Certain fl ours are synonymous with specifi c types
of pizzas, but there is so much more to a fl our than
just the company that produces it. A few things to
look for are:
* Protein percentage: the higher the protein of a
fl our the longer the fermentation time can and will
be.
* W Factor: the extensibility of the dough or the
strength of the gluten in the fl our. A fl our with less
gluten, or a soft fl our will be between W180-250. A
strong fl our will be between W250-300.
* Grind of the Flour: Measured on a scale from
00-2 with 00 being the fi nest and 2 the coarsest.
* Bleached or unbleached: Bleached fl our uses a
chemical aging process whereas unbleached doesn't.

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