vital wheat gluten

[mtn.homenative]

Hi. I have been adding this gluten to my dough recipe for a while, but I noticed that not many people mention using it here. I use KABF in Paula Deen's simple pizza dough recipe. I use it to get a little more chew, texture, and maybe flavor. I would like some input on this idea. Thanks

[Pete-zza]

Hi. I have been adding this gluten to my dough recipe for a while, but I noticed that not many people mention using it here. I use KABF in Paula Deen's simple pizza dough recipe. I use it to get a little more chew, texture, and maybe flavor. I would like some input on this idea. Thanks

mtn.homenative,

Welcome to the forum.

If you do an Advanced search of the forum using the expressions vital wheat gluten and VWG, you will get 13 pages of hits. The ingredient is also described in the forum's Pizza Glossary at http://www.pizzamaking.com/pizza_glossary.html#V. There is even a tool, called the Mixed Mass Percentage Calculator, at http://tools.foodsim.com/, that you can use to determine how much vital wheat gluten to add to a given flour to achieve a particular targeted protein content.

As for the use by our members of vital wheat gluten, the experiences are all over the place. Some members love it but others hate it. Its use is most appreciated by members who live outside of the U.S. where their flours can be lower in protein and quality than the flours available to us in the U.S. If you do a forum search and read some of the posts, you will see that there is very little about vital wheat gluten that has not been discussed on the forum.

Peter

[norma427]

mtn.homenative,

To show you where Peter helped me use vital wheat gluten, (so maybe members that don’t have access to a high gluten flour like I do) to make a boardwalk pizza with KABF the post is at Reply 1506 http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,9068.msg215139.html#msg215139   That pizza was a fail and I am still not sure why, but if you look at the one I made before with vital wheat gluten at Reply 1473 http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,9068.msg214698.html#msg214698 you can see the vital wheat gluten and KABF did produce a decent pizza.  Steve and I could not tell if vital wheat gluten was added.

Norma

[mtn.homenative]

Thanks Norma. My pizza's look very similiar to yours. I can't taste the vwg in the dough either.