Gonna make homemade pizza again tomorrow - usually I kinda have to do these in pairs to use up ingredients during the timer I start by opening them, but I only have one packet of yeast. So I'll have to either make a grocery stop later (probably would need to anyway) or I can explore the world of yeast-less pizza...
@NovaSquirrel I wonder how well you could make a pizza with baking powder?
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@Felthry Some of the no-yeast pizza recipes I looked up did in fact use baking powder, and I do have plenty on hand too... so maybe I'll try that and have a new experience
@NovaSquirrel well, baking powder was invented in the first place to be a replacement for yeast! the idea is that instead of biologically producing the carbon dioxide bubbles, you do it chemically with a weak acid (usually monocalcium phosphate or alum) and a basic carbonate or bicarbonate that gets neutralized to carbonic acid, which breaks down to release water and carbon dioxide
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@NovaSquirrel there was apparently a *huge* battle in the industry over baking powders when someone realized you could use phosphates or alum (which react a little immediately, but then further when heated, so they form more CO₂ during the baking process) instead of just tartaric acid (which reacts immediately when water is added), because the people with the older tartaric acid formula did *not* want to lose all that business (they lost all that business)
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