Baking Pizza in a Home Oven

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Dennis HackethalOP revised 4 months ago·#1570· Collapse

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:

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Dennis HackethalOP, 4 months ago·#1573· Collapse

Dough was shaped horribly. Need to practice stretching it.

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