Learning Knowledge to Make Pizza: Peter’s (Pete-zza) idea to try the “entire enchilada” NY style soaker pizza 6/19/2012

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Thursday, June 21, 2012

Peter’s (Pete-zza) idea to try the “entire enchilada” NY style soaker pizza 6/19/2012

Peter’s idea to try the “entire enchilada” method with the Kyrol flour worked out well, with one minor hitch. As I posted in my last post, I never try to use much bench flour in opening any dough balls and this one was not an exception, even if the dough ball is tacky or sticky. The dough ball opened up like a breeze, just like the other dough balls on this thread. Whenever I am trying an experimental pie, or a dough that is higher in hydration, I always make sure to do the shake, shake, thingy on the peel before the pizza goes into the oven, to make sure the skin isn’t sticking anywhere. I asked Steve if the skin was sticking anywhere because he applied the cheese and was going to slide the pizza into the oven. Steve said we will see right when he went to slide the pizza in. Well, it was sticking a little in one place so the pie didn’t get round. The final pizza did get a little more oven spring than the one using the 50% soaker and GM Full Strength flour. The bottom crust also browned nicely, but a little bit different than when using the 50% soaker method and using GM Full Strength flour. The crumb was moist and there was a good taste in the crust. The bottom crust was about the same in crispness though. I also didn’t give any of these slices to any of my taste testers, because we didn’t have time and I also needed a few more slices to sell. I did save a slice for a reheat today though. Steve said he liked the taste of the crust better using the “entire enchilada” method, but I am not sure about that. I really didn’t have enough time to think about it because I had to eat my slice quicker than I had wanted to. Using both of these methods seems to produce a pizza that might have tasted like a real NY style pizza made many years ago, but I can’t be sure of that because I never tasted a NY style pizza made many years ago.

Dropping the water temperature some on both of these experiments didn’t seem to change the results in the final pizza. I used regular warm well water right from my kitchen faucet for both of these doughs. My well water is very hard.

Thanks goodness I am not at market when the temperatures are supposed to be in the high 90’s. It was hot enough at market Tuesday being in front of that oven.

Norma