I did make my poolishes for my markets pizzas on Friday and had planned on going to market today, to make the final dough. I had started another milk kefir poolish with added dairy whey to the final mix to see if that would help with crust coloration since my poolish is made on Friday and then the poolish is incorporated into the final dough on Monday. That has been my experiment for awhile with using the milk kefir poolish to see if I can ever make naturally leavened dough at market. I don't know if I ever will be successful with using milk kefir to leaven enough dough to make many pizzas on Tuesday
When I make my regular poolish for market, I just add equal amounts of flour and water and IDY and let the poolish bubble a little, before placing it into the deli case to ferment more until Monday. I then mix it into my final dough on Monday and let the dough cold ferment for one day, before using it on Tuesday at market to make pizzas. This is called my Preferment Lehmann dough for market.
I had an unexpected problem at home on Saturday evening. My hot water heater went out and then I had to heat all my water for bathing and dishes. In my opinion you don't really appeciate what you have, until you don't have it. It wasn't too bad heating all the water, but I wanted to get the water heater fixed as soon as the weekend was over. I had tried flipping the circuit breakers and pushing the reset button on the water heater, so I guess it is beyond me. I called my plumber this morning to see when my water heater could be fixed. My water heater is still under warranty, but that doesn't include if an element goes bad. In our area we have well water and the water is very hard, so it makes a water heater develop calcium depoists on the element. My plumber couldn't come out today, so the plan is for him to come out tomorrow. Plumbers in our area are so busy, that I don't have a definite time when he is coming.
That leads me to my next problem. What to do about market tomorrow. Since it is supposed to snow in our area Tuesday afternoon into Wednesday, the plumber said he might not be able to make it to where I live until Thursday, if he doesn't come out tomorrow. So I made the appointment for him to come and fix the water heater on Tuesday, my market day. :( I went to market today, and did all the other things I needed to do, but didn't make more dough with the poolish. I now seem to have feelings that I will really miss making the pizzas tomorrow. I guess that is the way it is, in the life of a person that loves to make pizza and also likes to eat pizza. I hate to disappoint any customers that might come to buy my pizzas, but I really don't have any control over my hot water heater not working. I did put a sign on my small pizza stand saying why I wouldn't be at market tomorrow. I guess I am just feeling a little sad tonight that I can't make pizza for my customers or do the experiments I wanted to do tomorrow. The smell of the pizza baking, makes me happy for some reason, because it smells so good and I really like to make pizzas. I had planned on making the milk kefir pizza with the dairy whey to see how that would affect crust coloration and had planned on making a dough that member Larry had posted on pizzamaking.com for a Caputo pizza that could be baked in a lower temperature oven. I also really wanted to try that experiment.
Now tomorrow, I will be sitting at home waiting for my plumber to come, instead of making pizza.
This is a picture of another notebook I have of my experiments and also the dough I was going to try out at market tomorrow. I might bake this dough at home or either freeze the dough. I still haven't decided what to do with it, as of tonight.
My pizza making adventures will continue though, and hopefully next week things go better.
Norma
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