even if the original volume was 1/10, that's a lot of wasted food
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You should see grocery store dumpsters.
You should see grocery store trash compactors. So much shit gets tossed and crushed
I saw once at my grocery store they were loading a bunch of boxes on a cart to transport them to the compactor in the back. They had a cart with some vertical metal bars, but no fully closed sides thus the boxes could easily fall off of the cart. So they got a roll of plastic wrap and wrapped around the whole damn cart to create these “walls” so the boxes wouldn’t fall off. The compactor in the back was maybe 200ft away. Smdh.
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I don't know why they'd be throwing away so much dough. The only things I could think of is they made it wrong, or it's very old.
There's no way they accidentally made too much. Pizza shops usually have small dough mixers.
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. And when we're talking about one of the cheapest inputs in the whole system, doing too much prep is much preferable to doing not enough. Losing a $10-$20 pizza sale because you were worried about a 20 cent waste product is poor business.
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
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Chains will usually ship the dough frozen from a central location, you then defrost it the night before you want to serve it. That means you need to project your sales for the next night otherwise it'll go bad. If you get it majorly wrong you'll be left with a load of dough that is bad
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.
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When I was a teen working at Little Caesar’s, we set up a giant elastic band in our back door, and would launch our expired dough balls at the Burger King drive-thru window across the street. Then they’d call us and yell. Fun times.
LMAO.. I would have loved to see them flying through the air!!
Looks like Pizza the Hutt.
apparently they had to switch puppeteers for that suit so many times due to heat stroke, since the surface was actual pizza being heated from within
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this is the yeast of my problems
At least they didn't pour it down the drain.
It was the yeast they could do.
Yeah, they really had to rise to the occasion here. Some people would have disposed of it irresponsibly, but I guess they're just bread better there, although whoever left it in the sun must have been baked.
When the Sun
Hits the dump
Full of big yeasty clumps
That's a dough-ay
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So how do you get rid of old dough?
If you let it fully ferment it'll turn into a flat goo
Salt it. Salt blocks yeast.
Cook it first
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Pizza the hut ate himself to death in there !
Pictures you can smell.
First time I've looked at a dumpster and thought "I bet that smells delicious"
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Pizza the hut lives!
if the dough is unusable then there's really not much choice about what to do with it. I suppose you could partially cook it before tossing it, but that's a high cost option with regards to time, energy usage, and oven space.
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Weird thing to do to a cybertruck but I’m down
With the heat from the sun hitting the dumpster too, hmm. That might actually be how they make theirs down the road.
It hungers.
These look like props from a Troma film.
I wonder if this was the inspiration for the 1993 Mario movie
So the early 90s movies were telling us the truth about ooze after all?
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