Pizza Making Class at Fred's 3/12/2011 :)

Fred (SmokinGuitarPlayer) on pizzamaking.com, had a Pizza Making Class today at his business.  I knew he was going to baking all the pizzas in his little Italian oven.  I wanted to go to see how a little Italian oven works and also to learn more about making pizza, at Fred’s Pizza Making Class.  Steve and I went together to Freds’ class.  Fred did show everyone at his class how to make dough in his Bosch mixer.  He even showed how to ball dough balls, open dough balls, and dress the pies.  Fred said I could take pictures and videos of everything he did.  Steve and I found Fred’s Pizza Making Class very interesting.  Fred talked about what he had learned in some of the pizza classes he had attended.  Fred used half Pizzeria flour and half Caputo Rinforzato flour and he had made the dough balls he used today in his Pizza Class 2 days ago and cold fermented them, until today.  The pizzas Fred made in the Pizza Making Class were very good and his Italian oven baked the pizzas fast.  I think his oven was around 725 degrees F when he put the first pizza in the oven to bake.  Most of the pies baked in about 2 to 3 minutes.  The crust was very tender.  Fred made many kinds of pizzas and we got to sample them all.

Steve and I had a very good time today in Fred’s pizza making class and I learned a lot of new things about making pizza.  I really like Fred’s little Italian oven.  It is a “little gem”!  The bottom of the oven has a heating element and the top has an infrared element.

Fred had his Forno Bravo “The Primavera60" WFO sitting out in front of his business, but wasn’t using it today, because he wanted to teach people that were interested to make pizza in a oven.

This is Fred’s website and some of the items he sells.  He has many items for sale in his business.

http://www.fredsmusicandbbq.com  and  http://www.fredsmusicandbbq.com/category_s/478.htm

I bought a few items at Fred’s business.  I bought Pizzeria flour, Caputo Rinforzato flour, Royal Fig, and Sicilian “kiss of garlic” spread.  I want to try out Pizzeria flour and Rinforzato mixed flour in my deck oven sometime.

Thanks Fred for the great Pizza Making Class and all the free pizza we got to taste.  All the pizzas were great!  You are a great pizza making teacher! :)  The Nutella dessert pizza was delicious, also!

These are a couple pictures today from the Pizza Making Class.  To see other pictures, they are on pizzamaking.com at this link.  http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,13261.0.html

Norma