{"id":148025,"date":"2024-09-27T14:56:36","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T14:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pizzatoday.com\/?post_type=topics&p=148025"},"modified":"2025-08-21T08:53:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T08:53:35","slug":"relaxing-tough-pizza-dough-using-dough-conditioners-and-improvers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pizzatoday.com\/news\/relaxing-tough-pizza-dough-using-dough-conditioners-and-improvers\/148025\/","title":{"rendered":"Relaxing Tough Pizza Dough: Using Dough Conditioners and Improvers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Conditioners and improvers can help calm tough pizza dough<\/h1>\n

Have you ever worked a busy night, and your job is to stretch everything, but it seems like you\u2019re in for the worst upper body workout of your life as opposed to making pizza?<\/p>\n

One of the worst feelings is going through a busy service and your dough just doesn\u2019t seem to want to cooperate like it normally does. Dough \u2014 that you\u2019ve meticulously worked on that\u2019s meant to be soft and easy to stretch \u2014 has now become your worst enemy. Dough snaps back continuously and is super hard, making it that much more difficult to get good results. Enter the dough conditioners and improvers. I\u2019ve always grown up in an environment that promotes less additives are best, but sometimes you just need to fix it.<\/p>\n

With today\u2019s diet culture bleeding into the larger food culture, we\u2019ve been taught additives are the enemy even though we do not quite understand them fully. In my definition, dough conditioners are an additive that we add to our dough to help improve upon certain key characteristics like texture, stretchability and softness that go beyond the main ingredients of flour, water, salt and yeast. When I first began, the main dough conditioner I ever heard about was called PZ-44<\/a>. Over the years, I have learned that dough conditioners take many forms, and they can be as natural as fruit or as complex as man-made lab invented ingredients.<\/p>\n

First things first,<\/b><\/span> what is PZ-44 and other conditioners like it?<\/h3>\n

PZ-44, and similar conditioners are meant to soften and relax dough, reducing snapback as well as reducing mixing times. These are known as PZ-44 and Reddi Sponge.\u00a0 <\/span>PZ-44 is made from whey proteins and L-Cysteine, and Reddi Sponge is made from whey proteins, corn, potassium bromate, L-Cysteine, ascorbic acid and monocalcium phosphate (depending on the type of Reddi Sponge).<\/p>\n

Some of these names should sound familiar if you pay attention to flour and what\u2019s really in your ingredients. It\u2019s not as simple as listing wheat on a bag of flour anymore because of the process it undergoes to manufacture it as well as storage and transportation. Some ingredients are added in to help with preservation over the course of long travel periods or help slow down the aging process and some ingredients are added in for nutritional value. During the grinding process of flour, some nutrition is lost by the extraction of bran for more refined flours, so companies will add back in certain nutrients like Niacin and Ascorbic acid, a.k.a. Vitamin C, which are found naturally and can help with gluten structure.<\/span><\/p>\n

Potassium Bromate is an ingredient that gets a bad wrap and is soon to be outlawed in California. You\u2019ve mostly heard about this one when it comes to New York style pizza<\/a>. Numerous pizzerias still use bromated flour because it strengthens dough and helps with spring. This ingredient is banned in Europe and other countries, such as Canada, because it has been potentially linked to cancer. L-Cysteine is an amino acid that is normally used to help with extensibility. It helps shorten gluten strands, so dough is more easily manipulated and stretched. This ingredient can be derived from plants like oats and lentils but also from animal-based products. Like gelatin, a lot of vegans and vegetarians will steer clear of this ingredient because it can be found in animal hooves and feathers making it cheaper to produce.<\/p>\n

Deactivated Yeast, a.k.a. Nutritional Yeast, is a great replacement for L-Cysteine as it contains glutathione \u2014 which also cuts down gluten strands, breaking down proteins in dough. The only drawback to this ingredient is it is quicker to change the flavor of dough with the more you use.<\/p>\n

The more natural approach<\/b><\/span> to conditioning or improving dough would be to go the fruit route.<\/h3>\n

Fruits like kiwi, pineapple and papaya, whose juices contain enzymes that help cut gluten strands down, make dough easier to stretch and handle. The tricky part about using fruit is that the concentration within will vary drastically from season to season and it is harder to maintain consistency from batch to batch.<\/p>\n

Something that you are probably already using that helps condition and relax dough is fat. A lot of pizza makers use olive oil or animal fat like butter<\/a> or lard. Fats coat gluten strands which makes them stretchier, but also reduces the length of these strands as fats and most things do not mix well and instead create barriers. A less common ingredient these days that functions very similarly is eggs.<\/p>\n

One thing that I found surprising as a dough conditioner was meat tenderizer. Modernist Cuisine mentions trying meat tenderizers in a powdered form that work quite well at softening dough. Since meat tenderizers are derived from natural ingredients like those found in fruit juices \u2014 but have been purified and processed\u2014 they are more consistent and in a measurable form that helps making dough simpler and more reliable.<\/p>\n

Dough conditioners were invented<\/b><\/span> at a time when flour was of poor quality.<\/h3>\n

During times of war and climate change wheat is increasingly hard to grow, especially with supply and demand ever evolving. Dough conditioners and improvers were created to make it easier on the baker \u2014 be them professional or at home to make quality products. Nowadays it is easier than ever to gain access to great quality flour, which may not need a conditioner or improver to create dough that is easy to work with and consistent. Knowing how to read an ingredient label and understand the purpose of each item just adds to your repertoire and ability to make great dough in times of surplus and in times of instability.<\/p>\n

There are many ways to make dough that is manageable and easy to work with and conditioners and improvers are nothing to scoff at. Just understand restraint is key and to start small when trying them out.<\/p>\n

Laura Meyer<\/strong>\u00a0is the owner of\u00a0Pizzeria da Laura<\/a>\u00a0in Berkeley, CA.<\/p>\n

>> Explore answers to more common pizza dough questions in\u00a0Troubleshooting your Pizza Dough: What\u2019s wrong with my pizza dough?<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<<<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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