Frank was at market for awhile this
afternoon. Frank let me take five videos.
Frank made his own dough by hand
mixing. I never saw dough act so beautifully when opening a dough
ball and tossing the skin. The final pizzas were very good and the
best NY style pizzas I have ever tasted. I asked Frank what kind of
flour he used to make his dough. Frank uses AP flour right from the
supermarket. The crusts were so tender that they melted right in my
mouth. I was surprised at the weight of Frank's dough balls for a
big pizza. The one photo is of one of Frank's dough balls on the
regular scale at market. Frank gave me that dough ball to try
tomorrow.
Frank made a baked Ziti pizza and a
regular cheese pizza today. For the baked ziti pizza Frank used his
wifes sauce, Ricotta cheese and Provolone cheese. For the cheese
pizza Frank used my regular market sauce and the Sartori mozzarella
with a little bit of cheddar blended. The taste of the baked ziti
pizza and the regular cheese pizza were excellent. The photos of the
rim crusts were really a little darker than they really looked (from
the photos being taken with out a lot of lighting).
Frank also brought me two slices of a
taco pizza he made at Mick's last evening.
All the time I fuss with doing
experiments with dough and I sure don't know why I do that after
tasting Franks pizzas today. Frank's crusts are a lot better than
mine. Frank sure knows what he is doing when it comes to NY style
pizzas.
I made Frank a Detroit style pizza
today out of a 12.1 ounces dough ball that had been frozen and
defrosted today. I was surprised that the Detroit style pizza with a
higher dough ball weight turned out as good as it did. I did not
have any Detroit style dough frozen that weighed 9.5 ounces. Frank
said he really likes how fluffy the crumb is of the Detroit style
pizzas.
I probably will only be able to upload
a couple of the videos tonight. I still can not believe the little
bit of flour that Frank uses to open a dough ball and to flour the
peel. Frank opened a dough ball with oil today and one with just
flour.
Norma
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