Hi Mike, while adding a little lemon juice or vinegar to your pizza dough should be fine, and can add strength and keeping quality to the dough, adding enough to control yeast fermenation by lowering the pH sounds risky; at some point you're going to shut down yeast activity completely. This isn't a method of controlling fermentation that we've seen used or could recommend.
October 10, 2022 at 2:13pm
In reply to can I use an acid source,… by Mike (not verified)
Hi Mike, while adding a little lemon juice or vinegar to your pizza dough should be fine, and can add strength and keeping quality to the dough, adding enough to control yeast fermenation by lowering the pH sounds risky; at some point you're going to shut down yeast activity completely. This isn't a method of controlling fermentation that we've seen used or could recommend.