Another Attempt with Jimmyg's Epoxy Method for a Lehmann dough 6/5/2012

The epoxy Lehmann dough made another good pizza Tuesday. The dough was so easy to handle again, the bottom crust did brown well and there was a nice oven spring and moistness in the rim crust. I can‘t believe how easy the epoxy dough is to open.


I didn’t this post before, but I did use Kyrol flour this time to see if that would perform the same as when I used GM Full Strength flour. That makes me even wonder more how two difference flours can perform about the same when using the epoxy method. I sure didn’t get the same results when trying the Lehmann dough formulation when using Kyrol flour and GM Full Strength flour. I don’t even know how that is possible, unless both flours do get converted by the enzymes in the soaker to make the dough perform the same.

Norma
 
 

 

Steve and Bob's progress with their Airstream and WFO 6/5/2012

These are pictures of Steve’s and Bob’s progress with their old Airstream and their new WFO which they are going to go mobile with sometime in the near future. The Airstream looks great and they have started to polish it now. In the one picture it can be seen how shiny the Airstream is with Steve’s hands.


I am excited for my friends and they have both done such a good job of converting the Airstream. I wish both of them lots of luck when they finally get finished and open their new venture. They are both great people.  They soon will be living the dream of operating a WFO in an Airstream.  Both Bob and Steve did build their own WFO's at their home.  Both of them are so handy in everything they do. 

More on Steve's oven builds at http://learningknowledgetomakepizza.blogspot.com/2012/06/steve-my-friend-man-with-many-pizza.html  Steve is a man with many talents.  So is Bob.  He also built a WFO on a trailer and a Weber conversion.  I don't have the pictures of Bob's Weber conversion, but his WFO on his trailer is posted on my blog.  I really like Bob's Weber grill to pizza oven conversion!

Now Bob and Steve have illumination! Lights on. :)
Norma

My next Mack's pizza attempt with Bill from Trenton help..6/5/2012

Bill from Trenton came to visit us at market yesterday and bought some nice gifts. He brought a pack of Nasonville Pizza Cheese, some plum tomatoes from Italy, a pouring sauce container from Maruca’s, and pack of Great Lakes sharp cheddar from Shop Rite in NJ.


The Mack’s pizza attempt went very well yesterday. The dough was easy to open, could be tossed and twirled, and seemed to be like a Mack’s dough, using Peter‘s formulation. We blended Bill’s Great Lakes Cheese with my mozzarella blend 50/50. The pie was dressed with cheese first, then sauce using the Maruca’s old container, then more cheese was applied. We ended up using about 10 oz. of cheese. The Gangi sauce was also used with a fair amount of added pepper and oregano. The resulting Mack’s attempt seemed be one of my best in that the cheese blend did taste almost exactly like a Mack’s pizza, the sauce tasted like a Mack’s pizza and the crust also seemed to be like a Mack’s pizza. Bill, Steve, my taste testers and I all enjoyed this pizza very much. I also bought home a slice to reheat. If anyone can purchase the Great Lakes sharp cheddar and combine it with a good mozzarella blend, I think it will give them close to a Mack’s pizza. At least that was my experience yesterday. I still am not sure if I like the Goya manteca lard used in the dough better than olive oil. Maybe a little less of the cheese blend could have been used.

Bill found me an original Maruca’s http://www.marucaspizza.com/index.html sauce pouring vessel and brought it to market yesterday. I love the sauce pouring container because I do like old things and it poured the Mack‘s sauce great yesterday If the Man vs. Food video is watched at Maruca‘s website it can be seen that the container like Bill gave me is like the container in the video and also I find it interesting that Maruca‘s does all the sauce last instead of in between the cheeses. In the video also it can been seen there is a hot dough press at Marcua‘s. I find it amusing that Maruca’s, Macks, and Manco and Manco all started from Trenton “tomato pies”. I think the video is interesting. I don’t know why Maruca’s uses a hot dough press. If anyone is interested, those slices at Marcua’s sure look big. Bill told me the slices are very big, as he has eaten them many times. As posted on Yelp by a poster those killer slices are 3.75. http://www.yelp.com/biz/maruca-tomato-pies-seaside-park We all had a great time talking to Bill yesterday and really enjoyed that he came to visit us.

It was a pleasure finally meeting you Bill after talking to you on the phone different times. Thanks also Bill for bringing the gifts! I really liked how the Great Lakes sharp cheddar combined with my mozzarella blend did give the taste of a Mack’s pizza.

Norma