What Does Dough Relaxer Do?

Dough relaxer is ideal when trying to make thin crust pizza.

Bread dough relaxer combines natural baking ingredients to create a powder that when added to dough helps it to relax. This makes working with dough and trying to form dough into various shapes considerably easier.

How it Works

When working with dough, it is common for the dough to bounce back when you press it down or try to form it. The bouncing back is caused by the gluten in the dough, which is very elastic and wants to hold the dough together in a tight ball. The dough relaxer decreases the elasticity in the gluten, which allows the dough to be formed.

Application

Dough relaxer is commonly used in pizza doughs. This allows the baker to make the pizza dough perfectly round or very thin. Dough relaxer can also be used while making bread. It will enable the bread to be easily formed into different shapes.

How to Use It

To use dough relaxer, you add it to the dough along with the other ingredients prior to kneading the dough. It works quickly, and once the dough is fully mixed, you will be able to tell the difference as you form the dough.

References

• Arm chair: Baking Ingrediants
• Baking 911: Bread Baking 101

Resources

• 101 cookbooks: pizza dough recipe