Calzone with cepes and ham.
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Calzone with cepes and ham.
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Toyed with that idea. Have also come to the conclusion I’d rather some more things for the Egg and a VR headset for the PS5 so will be upgrading my stone to a biscotto.
Seeing lots of people making good pizzas in the FB forum so clearly it is me failing. Also we don’t eat enough pizza.
New outdoor pizza oven just dropped. Where is spring?
I shall seek penance.
Don’t feel I have the time for week night pizzas, certainly not the mess I make doing them.
Perhaps I need to try different varieties and do them more often over the summer as fallen into a rut of pepperoni or prosciutto crudo.
Biscotto certainly reviews well for changing the base out, so worth a go for £60.
Quick Q - I'm assuming it's fine to freeze the proofed and balled dough for later?
I've heard people doing it, never done it myself. I'd rather knock up a new dough, no cost or effort involved....
It will keep a couple of days in the fridge if you need to change plans. Just re-ball it when you take it out five hours before the bake.
AdiM sell pre-balled dough (from Italy) which comes frozen.
I tried it once (I know!!) and it worked just like any other.
So, yes it is possible.
p.s. the dough they sell contains OIL Raffe !!!!
Grazie guys
And pineapple is a big no no!
Margherita always a winner, as is tomato sauce, mozzarella and Nduja (IMHO)
Really enjoying this - I find the dough making quite therapeutic doing it by hand and my lad is joining in the process as well, he gets excited by seeing what happens all the way through.
PS no oil here.
Looks like the freight forwarder took that part with "dropping" a bit too serious.
Oven looks like it has been dropped, biscotto smashed, looks like it's completely bent out of shape.
Not happy.
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Sorry to hear that Raffe, hope you get it rectified.
On another note, what happened to your last outdoor oven? Upgrade?
Yep, everything. Me after the 21 turfed out night.
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That pumpkin puree...
Had pizzas tonight using dough that had been proving for 48 hours at room temperature. Neopolitan style, minimal yeast, Tipo 00 flour (Caputo was unavailable so I used the M&S one that's for pasta but can be used for pizza), salt, water (60% hydration). No oil whatsoever either in the dough mix or brushed on top to prevent sticking. What I did do is roughly mix the dough ingredients, leave it in a bit of a tatty mess for an hour covered before kneading by hand. I have a Vorwerk Thermomix but I've found hand kneading and folding gets a much better result, you can tell when the dough is correctly kneaded and its actually quite therapeutic!
That extra time proving made a huge difference to the taste of the dough and it had excellent leopard spots (cooked in a Sage Pizziolo electric pizza oven). Really very good even if my stretching skills aren't up to scratch yet.
Using fresh mozzarella chopped and drained on kitchen roll, hand crushed tinned San Marzano tomatoes (liquid drained, just using the tomatoes, uncooked with basil, a bit of salt and pepper and a splash of olive oil to make the sauce), Parmigiano Reggiano and Nduja plus some fresh basil.
I also tried making one with Provelone cheese and Milano Salami and that was very good again but in both cases the dough really made the difference so a 48 hour prove is what I'll stick to.
Room temp is 21 degrees in the apartment and I'm proving in a plastic pizza dough proving box I bought inexpensively off amazon.
I find this whole thread very inspiring TBH - now I'm more into it and know a bit more what I'm doing I can really appreciate the skill I can see that's gone into making some of the pizzas that we can see in the thread.
There we go.
That must have been the quickest learning curve ever.
Well done.
Pizza party today!
70% hydration.
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I’’’ve made a fair amount of pizzas since the first lockdown and here are some of my tips most may have been mentioned so apologies for repeating.
Knead your dough to temp in the winter I aim for 23c and summer about 21c as a minimum the knead time is about 15 minutes in total (I use a spiral mixer and appreciate not everyone does). If you get to the temp a lot faster then put flour in the fridge before hand and using ice cold water will help to extend the knead time in hot conditions.
For the tomato sauce I just use peeled Italian tomatoes and run this through a moulin and add salt.
Best cheese to use is Fior de latte.
Fresh yeast is best and I tend to use soft water or mineral water.
Balling your dough if you are balling say anywhere from 4 hours or less to first pizza then you don’t want to ball the dough too tight anything greater than 6 you would ball the dough a lot tighter.
Hope the above helps someone, keep up the pizza making.
Here’s a photo of one I made a while back on a Effeuno.
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I don't know how you do it. Last time I tried a pizza last year I tried 63% and that was sticky as hell. How do you get them balls so perfect which looks like no flour on them at all?
Then how do you get them out the tubs? I take it after proofing they all go flatter and touch each other?
I don't use flour when handling the dough. If you properly stretch and fold, the dough sticks only minimally.
Yes, they go flat. To take them out, I sprinkle them with rice flour and then take them out with a spatula, dropping them into a bowl with rice flour. From there, everything is easy.
How about a rice equivalent of semolina on the peel - maybe grind some rice down to a very coarse flour?
Guys. If you prove dough for 40 hours, make a fresh tomato sauce with San Marzano tomatoes, get in buffalo Mozzarella, all this for a visiting friend - and then they ask if you can make them a pizza with pineapple and also use ketchup instead of tomato sauce because they 'don't like the texture of tomatoes' how do you stop yourself from repeatedly hitting them over the head with the peel?
Asking for a friend.
I have bought one with the stand and a bunch of accessories The old Weber peel wasn't going to cut it. Only made 12 pizzas so far, so the cost per pizza is around £200.
It seems great so far. I probably cooked too early on my first try, and the base wasn't quite hot enough. Pizzas were still good, but the bases didn't get much colour. The second time I gave it another 5 minutes and they were great. A big step up from the Weber gas BBQ + stone which couldn't generate the heat.
The quality of the Gozney seems outstanding. Even the boxes and instructions shows how well thought out the product is. It comes with unboxing instructions and even a box cutter to do it properly. The stand is a beast and super heavy, but it all fits together so well.
I haven't used the wood fired option, but the gas heats the oven up in 15-20 minutes and produces a great product. The gas pilot light takes a while to ignite for some reason - not a one click process like a weber. It also takes up to 2.5 hours before it gets cool enough that I feel safe to put the cover back on. Even then the stone is pretty warm to the touch.
Other pizza ovens will give a similar quality output, but they don't ever look are nicely finished as the Gozney. I spent a lot of time researching others before buying this one and I don't regret it.
Gozney looks very nice. Maybe they give a discount if you don't insist on the box cutter?
£200 per pizza can't be much more than the average London price for authentic pizza?
OK I'll post some tomorrow. I started a prove at around 4pm this afternoon and it should be ready by around 7.30pm tomorrow. Tiny amount of yeast, room temperature prove so this will slowly expand to be enough for 5 pizzas tomorrow evening .https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...60d38f7ef9.jpg
My biscotto stone has finally started it’s journey to me. Am sensing it will arrive ahead of my perfect draft beer kegs, which yodel have still not collected from the goods out warehouse.
More than halfway through the prove. The slow fermentation process really adds great flavour and actually this 27 hour prove is a relatively 'quick' one - more than 36 hours gives the best flavour.
Sadly I still don't have the stretching skills of some of you on this thread so it's still a bit of a case of 'all the gear and no idea' but I hope practice makes perfect (or if not perfect then better than the present at least!)https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...2e73399a29.jpg
You may want to look at this (not how I do it, but it works - even though I would leave the oil away):
And this is how you stretch the dough to a pizza:
OK so as anticipated I messed up the stretch, arriving at a rugby ball shaped pizza however very very tasty and a nice airy crusthttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...aaa81986d6.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...5eae4507f7.jpg
I see you are not overloading your pizzas, that's good. Three quarters of my pizzas are Margheritas. I bet you enjoyed these.
PS: What did you do with the corpse of the ketchup guy?