Okay you pizza crust makers. When making the dough, do you use tap or bottled water? The two best

[Floyd R. Turbo]

pizza chefs I know differ. One says only bottled, the other insists that tap is better as it has minerals that adds to the flavor and consistency of the dough.

What say you? 😋🍕

[Cary]

1. What makes you think bottled water is different from tap water?

Do you mean distilled water versus tap water?

[Floyd R. Turbo]

3. Filtered/purified bottled water vs unfiltered tap.

[Cary]

16. Ok but you can't be sure about your bottled water.

just sayin.

[Major Nikon]

19. The mineral content could be more or less from either

Most bottled water takes water from the municipal supply, runs it through reverse osmosis to remove minerals, and then adds a specific recipe of minerals back into the water.

Tap water generally comes from either wells tapping underground aquifers or reservoirs. The mineral content may vary within certain EPA guidelines.

[shanny]

7. FYI distilled water is very bad for you:

it leaches minerals out of your body. Save it for your iron.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

8. Not true at all.

https://www.healthline.com/health/can-you-drink-distilled-water

[Major Nikon]

20. It's partially true

Which your link alludes to but doesn't provide much in the way of information.

Distilled water doesn't replace minerals and electrolytes which are essential for bodily functions. Most people are going to replace those things through the food they eat. However, if you were losing large amounts of water through sweat and drinking only distilled water, you could potentially kill or seriously injure yourself. To some extent this problem exists even with plain tap water, but is more of a problem with distilled water.

When I'm out riding my bike on a hot day here in Texas, I can easily drink a gallon of water over the span of 2-3 hours and sweat almost all of it out. I certainly wouldn't want to be drinking only distilled water.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

21. It doesn't leech minerals, though.

It just doesn’t replenish them. Totally different.

[Major Nikon]

24. From your link...

Aside from its flat taste, distilled water doesn’t provide you with minerals like calcium and magnesium that you get from tap water. Because it doesn’t contain its own minerals, distilled water has a tendency to pull them from whatever it touches to maintain a balance. So when you drink distilled water, it may pull small amounts of minerals from your body, including from your teeth.

Storage and distribution of demineralised water is problematic if the wrong material is used. It can actually destroy iron and PVC pipes and storage vessels made from those and certain other materials. The reason is because it most certainly does leech cations. Nutritional minerals are also cations. The primary source of most, if not all nutritional minerals comes from the food we eat, not the water we drink. So drinking distilled water isn't really a problem for the vast majority of the population, but it could be in certain circumstances.

Some people actually advocate for the health benefits of drinking distilled water, which is pretty much straight up quackery.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

25. I mean, I don't drink it because it tastes bad.

But it’s not unhealthy to consume it, as long as you’re getting your minerals elsewhere.

I know there’s quackery on both sides of this one. Mercola and other quacks have tons of articles on it, both pro and against.

[Meadowoak]

2. I suppose it would also depend on the tap water, it isn't the same everywhere.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

4. The water here is very hard. I drink only bottled.

[zipplewrath]

5. Would depend upon where I was

People say that New York City water is what makes the bagels.

[customerserviceguy]

9. I used to hear that a lot

when I lived in NY, about a half hour from the city. It was also said that it makes better pizza crust.

While the bagels down here are lousy, there are a couple of places that have good pizza. I think it's the skill of the maker, and not just one ingredient.

[shanny]

6. Depends on where you are I guess:

I prefer to have the minerals where I am. In many foods it is the trace minerals that really give them their flavor: remember when spinach was really strong tasting? When the skin of a baked potato was the best part? But I digress.

Only time I don't use tap water in "baking" is when I make waffles: in that case, sparkling mineral water and minimal mixing.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

10. I use tap water for all my fermentables.

Beer and bread. I’ve tried bottled/filtered water and it just isn’t the same.

[Callalily]

11. I use tap water.

But now that you mention it, I think that I'll try bottled water next time I make pizza dough and see if there's a difference.

[TexasTowelie]

12. When I used to make pizza dough I used tap water.

I believe that it is more important to have the water at the correct temperature so that the yeast will make the dough rise.

[Ptah]

13. Is pineapple involved?

Asking for a friend.

[Laffy Kat]

17. .....

[Floyd R. Turbo]

23. Well hell yea! 😋

[MissB]

14. The crust recipe I use calls for

Milk. Not tap or bottled water.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

22. Interesting!

[Marthe48]

30. I use milk for rolls

I have used a recipe for rolls from a 1940s cookbook since 1973. Milk, butter and sugar make tender dough.
For bread loaves, I use a similar recipe, which uses less butter and sugar.

For pizza and chewy bread, I use water, flour, salt, a little oil, a teaspoon of sugar.

[hunter]

15. Tap water through the carbon block filter.

Our tap water is horrible hard aggressive stuff tamed by the water company using heavy applications of peroxides, chloramines, and I-don't-want-to-know what.

Our raw water can eat up an electric coffee maker in less than two years. It can eat up the o-rings in a tankless water heater in less than seven years. It can dissolve enough copper to turn the insides of our toilet tanks green.

We've got three taps in our kitchen -- the raw water kitchen faucet, the "mineral water" tap which has gone through the carbon block filter, and the reverse osmosis tap.

The waste water from our reverse osmosis system drains into our garden fountains. The fish living there are fine with that. It would probably work well for pizza dough too.

[NotASurfer]

18. It would never have occurred to me to use bottled water

I like relatively thin crust, higher ratio of toppings to crust. As long as I get some crispiness I'm good

[jberryhill]

26. Doesn't matter - because most people aren't using the right flour anyway

There are people who use all-purpose flour for pizza instead of 00 (doppio zero) flour.

But I don't use water from the toilet anyway. I use Brawndo. It's got what plants crave:

[tymorial]

27. I refuse to use bottled water, but I do filter tap water.

Honestly though, I've used both tap and filtered and I don't taste or notice the difference.

[Marthe48]

28. Read in science mag yrs ago

That the bacteria unique to your hands give any dough you knead flavor unique to your kitchen. I have been baking bread by hand since I was 12 and I use tap water. I usually add more yeast than the recipe asks for, so I get a little extra yeasty flavor.

I do wash my hands with soap before I begin starting dough, but if I get them sticky, I just use tap water to rinse.

People loved the rolls I make and when I told them about the science article, they said I must have really good hands. I want to get a bread amchine, but even if I do, I'll handle the dough somewhat so it has some character.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

29. Interesting. I had bread machine several years ago that I eventually gave away due to lack of use.