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Do you make pizza at home?

gomestar

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I never make my own, mostly because I can order a product far superior to anything I could ever make with a quick phone call to Luzzo's.
 

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Originally Posted by pscolari
The key to making a really good homemade dough is to prepare it via delayed fermentation, ie letting the dough rest at least 24 hrs in the refrigerator. The benefits of this are two-fold, better flavor and glutens are relaxed allowing you to roll the dough out easier.

This. I used to make pizza, before I declared simple carbs evil. Used to make our own sauce, using San Marinaro tomatoes or home made pesto for sauce. Pizza stone, heat it up for 30 minutes at 500 degrees, let her rip.
 

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My wife does, and it's awesome. Homemade dough, homemade sauce, good cheese, quality toppings. Better by far than anything we could possibly order locally.
 

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try this. sorry for the multiple jumps, but that was the only way i could find it: my test kitchen director bought firebrick to line her oven and two pizza stones ... one on top one on the bottom. worked amazingly well.
 

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Originally Posted by pscolari
I believe this is verbatim from the Reinhart book I have.

http://www.food.com/recipe/peter-rei...-recipe-371543

That Reinhart recipe is the one I always use, and it's delicious. I've heard people go as far as saying the water you use is important, because of its mineral content, but i think that's splitting hairs. Agree that it's all in the dough. Good toppings will be good on anything, pizza or otherwise. Good pizza is reliant on the crust. I always just crank the oven up as high as it can go, and go from there. Pizza ovens are normally what, 900 degrees?
 

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Originally Posted by foodguy
try this. sorry for the multiple jumps, but that was the only way i could find it: my test kitchen director bought firebrick to line her oven and two pizza stones ... one on top one on the bottom. worked amazingly well.

good read. thanks
 

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I've made it on baking paper. Tasted pretty good, though not exceptional.

Originally Posted by willpower
Pizza stones make all the difference

What difference does the stone make?
 

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Originally Posted by suited
It's all in the sauce, and to a lesser extent, the cheese. If you're buying ingredients at a supermarket, go with a marinara over the "pizza sauce" they typically sell.

I would have to disagree. the biggest difference between a superb pizza and a crappy version I make at home is the crust/dough.
 

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Originally Posted by CDFS
I've made it on baking paper. Tasted pretty good, though not exceptional.



What difference does the stone make?


It applies much more heat to the crust/dough. This makes it possible for it to be crispy on the outside and still soft/slightly-underbaked on the inside, without drying it out.
 

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Originally Posted by Redwoood
To me, it's all about the dough. Everything else is just like topping a sandwich.

+1

If there's one thing I can't stand, it's bad dough.
 

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