Another Video from Frank Giaquinto on dressing a NY style pizza

Frank dresses a NY style pizza. Frank did have to pick the skin up (before dressing) because the skin was sticking a little to the wooden peel. The skin sat on the wooden peel for awhile until the Sicilian pie was done. Frank quickly tossed a little flour on the wooden peel and then laid the skin down on the wooden peel again. The pizza did not stick when Frank slid it into the oven. Frank talks about when a pizzeria is busy then the pizzas are not burned because you are always watching the pizzas in the oven. I know that is the case with me too. I don't burn pizzas when I am busy. Frank added a little Parmesan cheese to the middle of the sauce when he first was applying the sauce. Frank said then the Parmesan cheese spreads easily to combine evenly into the sauce.

The cheese on Frank's NY style pizza was the cheddar I normally use at market.

http://youtu.be/GaUzm4-w0us

Norma

More Videos from Frank Giaquinto 9/18/2014

The first video is of Frank making a Sicilan pie from a frozen par-baked crust. Note there is not as much sauce on this par-baked crust as the one last Monday. Frank dresses the Sicilian pizza. Frank shows a different way to apply some extra pizza sauce at the end of the dressings. Frank also talks about different pizzerias he worked at. The cheese on the Sicilian pie was the cheddar I use at market.

http://youtu.be/-ZQCQCO2Zx0

Frank opens a NY style dough ball with oil. The dough ball is not overfermented. The dough ball was also frozen. I asked Frank if the skin sitting on the wooden peel wouldn't stick. Frank said no, it would not stick to the wooden peel while we waited for the Siclian pies to get finished baking. I told Frank my skin sure would stick to the wooden peel if I waited that long to dress the pie, and then waited that long amount of time to put the pizza into the oven.

http://youtu.be/kt3yYSDGCGg

I tried to shake the skin on the wooden peel and it stuck for me. Frank tells how to get the sticking skin off of the peel in a different way.

http://youtu.be/2Cy1EE47ZfI

Norma

Photos from today.