[Sca-cooks] White Pizza- OOP

[Terry Decker]

> Bear, you gotta meet this guy known in the pizza world as the "Dough
> Doctor", Tom Lehmann.  Quite the dough master of renown.
>
> Butter in large batches of pizza dough can be challenging to manage if
> replacing all of the liquid oils.  When you are making 50lb flour batches,
> most people don't want to have to fiddle with the math of butter which is
> about 80% fat and 20% water.  Figure the extra weight of butter and water
> reduction amount.  We aren't even discussing cost here, though.  There is
> also a browning issue that sometimes has to be balanced when adding the
> dairy.  It can be done, but most we talk with seem to stick with olive oil
> if added fat is desired.
>
> pecem et pizza,
> niccolo difrancesco

I wouldn't try to replace oil with butter in a large batch of dough, but 
small batches of dough tend to be more forgiving of variations in 
ingredients, which is why I think substituting the equivalent amount of 
butter for olive oil would likely work, especially when you consider that 
the oil content of pizza dough varies between one and three ounces of oil 
per pound of dough depending on recipe.

In commercial quantities, oil is less expensive than butter and easier to 
work with, as you point out.  In the case of the "buttery" commercial pizza 
dough, I'd bet they're cutting costs by using an imitation butter-flavored 
vegetable oil rather than olive oil.

Bear