Would you work for food?

I figured that once a week I would watch a different food based TV show for anyone who may be interested. The episode of Will Work for Food that I watched last night was about pizza tossing and apple cider making with host Adam Gertler. The pizza tossing is in Castro Valley California where world pizza tossing champion Tony Gemignani teaches the host how to properly make the dough and toss the pizza. Ingredients used to make the dough include olive oil, flour, water, salt, sugar, and yeast. To prepare, you slowly mix the dough for 15 minutes. After mixing you should have a large amount of dough to work with. You want to make pieces of the dough into balls for tossing, so to check to see if the dough is good to toss gently press the dough and it should rise back to its ball position. Then you roll out the dough. To toss the pizza you would put the dough in the palm you one hand and twist your hand when you toss it into the air. Then of course to catch the dough properly you make two fists and let it land on your fists. You must toss the dough about 150 times before it is ready for the sauce and toppings.

Then the host goes with the owners to a cider mill in Michigan to the stock of apples that are picked from the orchard. The apples are hand inspected and those with defects are thrown out. After sorting the apples they head to the mill and oil the equipment. A sheet of cheesecloth is laid down so that the cider can drip through the boards. Apples are put into the grinder where they are mashed and then again inspected and more thoroughly pressed and evened. This process continues until they have added eight layers onto the press. (Each layer makes 20 gallons!) Cider begins to drip out from the weight alone, though the next step is to start the pump. The hydraulic press squeezes the cider out of the mash and ensures that the cider is pumped to the refrigerated storage tanks. The finished cider goes to customers whereas the unused mash goes to local farmers for feed for their stock.
This is pretty much the sum of the episode, it was pretty interesting though I find shows like Unwrapped, which are similar, to be more fascinating.