Burnley based The Dough Ball Pizza Co going from strength to strength

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From Sicilian roots to UK's pizza dough champion! The Dough Ball Pizza Co in Burnley is making waves in the pizza world.  Discover how this family business, born from generations of Sicilian expertise, has become the UK's most awarded pizza dough manufacturer. From Neapolitan to Detroit style, they master every variety.  What's their secret? Lancashire water! Discover how this unique ingredient enhances their dough and fermentation process, setting them apart from the competition. They're also pursuing B Corp certification.  #PizzaDough #PizzaMaking #Lancashire #SupportLocalBusiness

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00:00We originally started in the early 1900s in Palermo in Sicily. It was my great grandmother

00:07and her husband and relatives. They started the business originally and due to the war

00:13and other aspects the business could no longer trade but the knowledge and the know-how did

00:19actually get passed on. As I'm the only son in the family I decided to take the challenge and

00:25open my own factory. We've grown gradually over the years we started the business in 2012

00:32and it's just grown organically it's done really really well and then we decided to enter the

00:36products into the Great Taste Award and this year we've won an exceptional eight stars. We're

00:41officially the most awarded pizza dough manufacturer in the UK now and yeah we've had loads of interest

00:48and it's just going really really well and we're gaining new accreditations now so we're going for

00:53B Corp certification. We should hopefully be receiving that within the next month or two.

00:58So tell us what what is it exactly that you do here? So we produce pizza dough but we produce

01:04a full range of pizza dough covering all aspects of pizza from Neapolitan to Detroit style pizza,

01:12Bega, Poolish, all the new and trending products that are actually becoming popular now. We manufacture all

01:20of them and yeah so we cover the full range and yeah most other companies they only produce like

01:28one or two different varieties but because we're specialists in what we do we cover the entire

01:32spectrum of pizza so that way we can satisfy every different person's wants and needs. And I believe

01:39there's something about the Burnley water that's a bit of a special ingredient. Yes yes so obviously

01:44Lancashire water um historically it's always been used like in the cotton industry and when you look

01:51at the actual um like the new like not nutritional aspect but I'd say like the PH and that it actually

02:00does mimic Neapolitan water as well so we've actually got some data from that as well and uh yeah so

02:07that's a secret ingredient because a lot of people don't realize that using purified Lancashire water

02:14actually enhances pizza dough and it helps with the fermentation level with other companies especially

02:22water from the cities it's just has foul taste order and it just doesn't reflect the product as good as

02:32I was purely based on our location

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