Pizza makers, er.. cooks

1044

I was watching Gordon Elliott on tv yesterday doing an around the world best pizza thing. [p]One of the guys in New Haven,CT. said others used bread dough. That's why they could twirl them. His opinion was if you can twirl the dough, you ain't making pizza. Anywho, he said his dough wasn't bread dough. [p]Is that just his opinion on his and their dough? Or is there some other way to make it so it's not "bread" dough?

Puj

1044,[p]Basically the more gluten contained in a dough the "stronger" it is, making twirling easier. Bread flour contains more protein than all-purpose and semolina flours, but you can make a damn good pizza dough from AP, semolina ... or on the opposite side, high-gluten, which contains more protein than bread flour. Of course there's whole wheat flour and ....[p]Puj

JK

1044,[p]I used bread dough for the first time this weekend, instead of the usual unbleached flour. I thought it made a better pizza and was much easier to handle when preparing the pie.

1044

Thanks guys. That makes sense.