The Life-Changing Pizza Dough

The Life-Changing Pizza Dough with Joe Heffernan recipe indicates that you can substitute 'dry yeast' for the cake yeast. Can you please specify if we should use 'dry active' or 'dry instant' yeast as the substitute. It would also be great to better understand if there is an important difference in using on or the other for this pizza dough recipe or others. Thank you!! I love all your work and ideas. Thank you again. Rodrigo

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Gabriele_Di_Cerbo_40805

I would use (3 times the amount of dry yeast) of cake yeast. As far as active or instant I think they do exactly the same job in long term rising recipes.

wolfiegirl

The difference between dry active and dry instant is that dry instant can be added directly to the flour where as dry active should be hydrated prior to adding it to the recipe. Personally I've added dry active to flour without hydration without any untoward results. Just be absolutely sure that your yeast is active and can do the lifting. Best way to know that is to proof the yeast before adding it into your flour. Otherwise all your hard work will be for nothing and your dough won't rise.