Bottom right is Peppes pizza. The bases come pre-sauced and frozen in packs of 20. You put them into an oiled pan and put racks of these pans into a leavening cupboard. They puff up a lot, but they need to be used the same day. Because they fall pretty quickly.
My guess is that they accidentally dropped a couple of boxes down the stairs and shattered them to the point they couldn’t be used. Tossed them into the bin without thinking and the midday sun took care of the rest.
Similarly with chain pizza places like PJ’s, the dough is made at a central location and distributed by truck twice a week. It’s kept refrigerated for a while but it needs to be taken out of the fridge to rise. Sometimes franchises will order too much and it develops a black marbling of dead yeast, when it gets old. Can’t sell it at that point so you toss it in the bin.
In short it’s a failure of capitalism.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 3 days ago
If they’re making actual yeast dough balls you can’t make that to order. You need to prep them and put them in the fridge and if the proof time is too long then they go in the dumpster. If they were hoping for a rush and didn’t get it for whatever reason that could be a lot of dough balls
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I agree, but man flour has gone up. It’s probably around $1 for the 3 cups of flour and yeast to make a dough now. Even still, their losses are minimal compared to what they expected to make. Wish they’d just bake the over proofed bread and send it to a shelter though. May not be the best bread but just roll it into loafs real fast and it’ll taste fine
jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Can you freeze it?
roguetrick@lemmy.world 3 days ago
You can but then you need to thaw it to get it ready, which defeats the purpose in many operations.