Passionate About Pizza Blog

Yeast is amazing stuff.  It is a single-cell organism.  It gives off carbon dioxide gas and alcohol as it multiplies.  When allowed to grow inside dough that has gluten in it (as most pizza dough does), the gas is trapped in the gluten and the dough "rises."  Yeast exists in many different strains.  Some are wild and others are cultivated for specific purposes and sold commercially.  Brewer’s yeast and baker’s yeast are two such strains.  Sourdough starters capture and cultivate wild yeast.  Both baker’s yeast and sourdough starter are excellent sources of yeast for making pizza.