Too much dough, pepperoni on the edges, under the cheese and on top and extra cheese. Just overall too much. It was a successful attempt. From grabbing the flour to out of the oven in 90 minutes.

Cost per person $2.20

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[–] 3 points 1 week ago (12 children)

OK, so I’ve been using 00 Pizza flour with yeast, salt, sugar, and hot water for the past couple months perfecting my pizza making skills, but the dough always comes out kind of thin. How do you make it so fucking amazingly thick like that? Just more dough??

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 week ago (11 children)

    That was definitely more dough. I use all purpose unbleached flour. I find that proper fermentation, kneading and folding between rests makes more difference than buying 00 flour.

    Recently I have been making pizza dough the morning of. Make a good sticky dough, knead for 8 minutes adding flour as needed until it's stretchy. After an initial double I'll punch down and start folding it over itself a few times before another rest and then I'm ready to go.

    Earlier in the year I was mixing a no knead dough and letting it sit in the fridge for a few days for a full fermentation before using it.

    Hopefully I'll start planning ahead more to combine both methods. A full fermentation with the folding band stretching.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 children)

    I’ve been doing 1 cup water with maybe a bit more than 1/8th tsp yeast i think the recipe says 1/2 tsp sugar - I’ll let it sit with the yeast for 12 minutes then add 1.5 tsp salt and 2 cups flour and then kneading and adding a bit more flour until it’s not too sticky anymore… recipe says 3/4 cups water and 2 cups flour but it was always wayy too dry so i started using the whole 1 cup water and adjusting flour as needed. I’ll start the dough rising at about 10 am and let it rise until like 4-5pm and then par bake it for 10 minutes before I add toppings. It comes out pretty good but the crust is more crispy on the outside and the bottom isn’t thick enough. I never considered fisting that bitch halfway through the day

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 week ago (9 children)

    Definitely easier to start with less flour and add as needed during the kneed.

    I have stopped precooking the crust. I just add sauce, cheese and toppings to the raw dough now. It cuts the overall cook time and prevents burning on the edges.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago* (8 children)

    When I don’t par cook it just gets soggy though maybe I’m just not using enough crust… do you have a special oven? I just cook mine on a thin aluminum pan on 450 in a regular oven

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 week ago (7 children)

    Regular oven. 500 degrees. Cast iron skillet on the bottom rack to act as a heat battery and make sure that crust is fully cooked.

    For this particular pizza I buttered my pan. But normally I use corn flour, semolina or parchment paper.

    I might use a thin round aluminum pizza sheet or a standard restaurant grade aluminum baking sheet.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (6 children)

    Oh man I’ll have to try cast iron next time and double my dough thanks for the tips I’ll have to post a pic of my wonderful ‘za

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 week ago (5 children)

    I'd love to see more pizza posts here.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Pizza, wings, cats. Could be my place

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Pizza was almost perfect - way better than what I normally make. Nice caramelized edges just need to work out the doughey center. How long do you bake it for? I tried 12 minutes but it looked like it could use a bit more so added an extra 2.. I think I just used too much dough

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