Learning Knowledge to Make Pizza: Giordano’s Stuffed Deep-Dish Pizza

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Friday, December 3, 2010

Giordano’s Stuffed Deep-Dish Pizza

I tried the Giordano’s Stuffed Crust in January 2010, and must say it was quite tasty. Since I never tried any kind of stuffed crust this was a new adventure. Didn’t even ever eat a Chicago Deep Dish, so I have nothing to compare it to. One slice really fills you up!!

I didn’t have Corn Oil, so I used Crisco Oil. I used two kinds of flour. One a no name brand AP from our local country store and the other was KAAP.

Giordano’s Stuffed Pizza

Flour (100%): 1068.53 g | 37.69 oz | 2.36 lbs
Water (41.1765%): 439.98 g | 15.52 oz | 0.97 lbs
ADY (1.56862%): 16.76 g | 0.59 oz | 0.04 lbs | 4.43 tsp | 1.48 tbsp
Salt (2.02665%): 21.66 g | 0.76 oz | 0.05 lbs | 4.51 tsp | 1.5 tbsp
Corn Oil (16.6554%): 177.97 g | 6.28 oz | 0.39 lbs | 13.18 tbsp | 0.82 cups
Total (161.42717%): 1724.9 g | 60.84 oz | 3.8 lbs | TF = 0.1306813
Single Inner Ball: 663.42 g | 23.4 oz | 1.46 lbs
Single Outer Ball: 199.03 g | 7.02 oz | 0.44 lbs

I did take a picture of the top crust before baking and here is the top crust. Brushed top crust with olive oil. I rolled the dough with a rolling pin. With my oven not working the best, I could only get it up to 425, but kept watching how it was doing.
I put any kind of filling I had left in the fridge. Two kinds of mozzarella, two kinds of Parmesan, pepperoni, salami, sausage and sauce. When finished put sauce, 2 kinds of Parmesan and parsley on top.

Pete-zza’s formula

Flour (100%):
Water (41.1765%):
ADY (1.56862%):
Salt (2.02665%):
Corn Oil (16.6554%):
Total (161.42717%):
963.91 g | 34 oz | 2.13 lbs
396.9 g | 14 oz | 0.88 lbs
15.12 g | 0.53 oz | 0.03 lbs | 4 tsp | 1.33 tbsp
19.54 g | 0.69 oz | 0.04 lbs | 3.5 tsp | 1.17 tbsp
160.54 g | 5.66 oz | 0.35 lbs | 11.89 tbsp | 0.74 cups
1556.01 g | 54.89 oz | 3.43 lbs | TF = N/A

For a single dough piece for making only one 10" stuffed pizza (rather than three), the above dough formulation becomes:

Flour (100%):
Water (41.1765%):
ADY (1.56862%):
Salt (2.02665%):
Corn Oil (16.6554%):
Total (161.42717%):
321.3 g | 11.33 oz | 0.71 lbs
132.3 g | 4.67 oz | 0.29 lbs
5.04 g | 0.18 oz | 0.01 lbs | 1.33 tsp | 0.44 tbsp
6.51 g | 0.23 oz | 0.01 lbs | 1.17 tsp | 0.39 tbsp
53.51 g | 1.89 oz | 0.12 lbs | 11.89 tsp | 3.96 tbsp
518.67 g | 18.3 oz | 1.14 lbs | TF = N/A