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There are so many variables that go into making a PIZZA. The hydration of the dough, flour, yeast and many more.. Amounts of any kind of yeast in a pizza can make a big difference. Most recipes posted on the web, use too much yeast in their recipes. What I have found out so far, is either bulk fermenting the dough or cold fermenting the dough will give a better flavor in the crust. I am still experimenting to find different flavors in the crust of pies. In my opinion pizza is all about the best flavor you can achieve in a crust. I still am on the journey about flavors in the crust. Even differences in temperatures in you home or times of the year can influence how much yeast to use. If you want a pizza to develop flavors in the crust, there are many ways to go about achieving this.

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Pizzas
Preferment for Lehmann Dough Pizzas

Crust of Pizza

Crust of Pizza
Rim of Preferment Lehmann Formula

Adventure in Pizza Making

There are many ways to go about trying to make any kind of pizzas you want to create. PIZZA making is fun and also you get to eat your finished product. I learned to make all my pizza on http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php If you look on pizzamaking.com you can see all the beautiful creations of pizzas members make on this site. Members and moderators help members and guests achieve almost any kind of pizzas they want to create. Since joining this site, my pizza making skills have gone from non-existent to something much better. I invite you to take a look at this site.

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Sicilian Pizza

Sicilian Pizza
Sicilian Pizza with Preferment for Lehmann Dough

At my mom's home getting ready to bake in her gas oven

At my mom's home getting ready to bake in her gas oven
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Showing posts with label NY style. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NY style. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Tony Gemignani's Master dough with starter from the Pizza Bible

These are the results when using Tony's master pizza dough with the starter from the Pizza Bible, with the modified ingredients I posted about at Reply 1323 http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php?topic=30641.msg366271#msg366271

I was very busy yesterday, and the dough ball sat out too long to warm up, but the final pizza was very tasty in terms of the taste of the crust, the moistness in the rim and so forth. The dough ball was taken out of the deli case about 3:05 PM yesterday and then wasn't able to be made into a pizza until about 6:05 PM last evening. The dough ball was very easy to open, with no elasticity, or stretch back. I would like all of my dough balls to open that easily. The 2% AB Mauri malt didn't seem to affect the bake, unless the crispness of the bottom crust could be taken into account. I liked everything about this slice of pizza I tasted, except that it wasn't as crispy on the bottom crust as my regular boardwalk style of pizzas. I don't know how I could try to achieve a little more crispy bottom crust when trying the same recipe. The dough balls did weigh a little more than my normal dough balls.


Norma















Saturday, December 28, 2013

Two more pizzas made in the Blackstone oven...A Greek style pizza and a Mack's pizza attempt


Since it has become warmer in our area I wanted to fire-up the BS oven again.  I also wanted to try some different pizzas in the BS.  I have some Pillsbury Patent 4X flour so I decided to try the formula set forth at Reply 242 http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,691.msg144176.html#msg144176  I don't have a 10” pan, but I do have a cutter pan that is 10” across the top of the cutter pan.  I don't know if my cutter pan will be high enough. I also wanted to try a higher amount of oil in a dough so I picked the formulation at Reply 307 http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,9068.msg99472.html#msg99472  but I am attempting a 14” pizza.  I am not sure how this will bake in the BS with the higher amount of olive oil in the dough.  The formulation I used had a higher amount of IDY because it will only be cold fermented for one day.  

Both doughs were mixed in the Kitchen Aid mixer.  The Greek style dough was mixed with the flat beater only and the boardwalk style dough was mixed with the flat beater and the spiral hook.  For the boardwalk style dough I did use the Pillsbury Patent 4X flour too.

I did not remember to bring any cheese home from market so I have to find some at the supermarket.

In my opinion both of the dough formulations I tried and both of the final pizzas were really good.  Thanks Peter!

The Greek pizza is the first sets photos and the boardwalk style pizza are the last sets of photos.  The temperature can been seen before both bakes.  The two cheese blends went well together.  I don't think I ever tried those two cheeses together before.  The cheese on both pizzas tasted very good.  I used Greek oregano on both pizzas.

I think I am going to try offering Greek style pizzas at market again.  Maybe I won't get the same results as in the BS though.  The Greek style pizza baked fast in the BS, the edges did get crispy and the bottom crust seemed about right to me.  Spinach was put on top of the sauce for the Greek pizza and both pizzas had sandwich pepperoni added last. 

Move over Mack's.   In my opinion this pizza I attempted was much better than a Mack's pizza.  

It was 56 degrees F outside when I was baking in the BS.  Can't ask for much better weather than that.  

Norma