Baking Pizza in a Home Oven
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With an account, you can revise, criticize, and comment on ideas, and submit new ideas.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 (120g)
- Mozzarella (part skim, 77g)
Then, for garnish:
- Oregano
- Fresh basil leaves
- A dash of salt
Steps
- Preheat pizza steel for 45 min on middle rack with broiler on (was somewhere between 450 and 500°F).
- Rest dough at room temperature for 20 min (per instructions on the label).
- Stretch the dough.
- Dust the pizza peel with flour and place pizza on peel.
- Add tomato sauce.
- Add cheese.
- Put pizza in oven (on pizza steel).
- Bake for about 10 minutes.
The main challenge with baking pizza at home is that home ovens don’t get hot enough for the dough to bake properly. The pizza steel is supposed to help with that.
Results:
#1506 · · Dennis HackethalOP revised about 17 hours ago · ← 2nd of 2 versions → · Criticized5 criticim(s)
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The dough was bland and not very crispy.
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Need to use more cheese and spread it better.
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The toppings were done cooking much faster than the dough and started burning a bit toward the end.
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