Baking Pizza in a Home Oven

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Iteratively improving on pizza at home. Inspired by itsdoughguy on Instagram but mistakes are my own.


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Ingredients

  • Store-bought dough (1 pound)
  • Crushed tomatoes (135g)
  • Mozzarella (part skim, shredded, 130g)

Then, for garnish:

  • Oregano
  • Fresh basil leaves
  • 3g of salt

Steps

  1. Preheat oven for 1 hour. Ends up somewhere around 450°F.
  2. Preheat pizza steel for 30 min on top rack underneath broiler, reaches about 630°F.
  3. Rest dough until it reaches room temperature.
  4. Add salt to the tomato sauce.
  5. Grate cheese.
  6. Stretch the dough.
  7. Dust peel with flour.
  8. Remove excess flour from dough.
  9. Place dough on peel.
  10. Place dough on steel; still on top rack.
  11. Bake for 2 minutes.
  12. Take out and add sauce and cheese.
  13. Bake for another 1.5 minutes.

Results:

#1570 · · Dennis HackethalOP revised 11 days ago · 11th of 11 versions · Criticized4 criticim(s)

The crust could be crispier.

#1547 · · Dennis HackethalOP, 16 days ago · Criticism of #1570

According to this site, making the crust thinner should make it crispier.

#1558 · · Dennis HackethalOP, 14 days ago
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Some had suggested parbaking without any toppings. Horrible idea: the dough rose everywhere at once. Tomato sauce is required to weigh down the dough in the center.

#1571 · · Dennis HackethalOP, 11 days ago · Criticism of #1570

Their suggestion was that this approach might make the crust crispier. It did not. I’m starting to think the store-bought dough is the problem…

#1574 · · Dennis HackethalOP, 11 days ago
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I felt like trying more sauce. Mistake. 100g is enough.

#1572 · · Dennis HackethalOP, 11 days ago · Criticism of #1570
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Dough was shaped horribly. Need to practice stretching it.

#1573 · · Dennis HackethalOP, 11 days ago · Criticism of #1570
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