Baking Pizza in a Home Oven

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Ingredients

  • Store-bought dough (1 pound)
  • Crushed tomatoes (100g)
  • 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 660°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 the pizza peel with flour.
  8. Remove excess flour from dough.
  9. Place dough on peel.
  10. Add the tomato sauce.
  11. Add cheese.
  12. Place dough on steel; still on top rack.
  13. Bake for 2.5 minutes.
  14. Turn off broiler and set oven to 450°F.
  15. Move to bottom rack.
  16. Bake for another 4 minutes.

Results:

Dough noticeably thinner than last time.

#1559 · · Dennis HackethalOP revised 13 days ago · context · 10th of 11 versions · Criticized2 criticim(s)

The crust could be crispier.

#1547 · · Dennis HackethalOP, 16 days ago · Criticism of #1559

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

#1558 · · Dennis HackethalOP, 14 days ago
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Crust slightly better than last time but still too doughy.

Leaving the broiler on caused the cheese to cook too fast compared to the dough. But moving the pie to the bottom didn’t bake the dough fast enough to make up for that.

#1563 · · Dennis HackethalOP, 13 days ago · Criticism of #1559

I may want to go back to #1535 or some variation thereof where I put the cheese on after a parbake. It’s the best pie I’ve made to date.

Also note that #1515 had the best crust to date.

#1568 · · Dennis HackethalOP revised 13 days ago · 2nd of 2 versions
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Salt is dialed in now: 3g is perfect.

#1567 · · Dennis HackethalOP, 13 days ago
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