Tonight I'll be trying Alton Brown's pizza recipe again. I've had a tough time of it so far. Don't get me wrong, it tastes great, and it's not too difficult to make (despite my lack of stand mixer with bread hook -- I just put the ingredients in the breadmaker on the dough cycle for about half an hour). I don't even mind the 24-hour lead time on making the dough. But my dough-shaping talents are not strong. I can make the thin, 1-foot diameter pizza crust. It's roughly circular. But rarely does it slide off the peel and onto the pizza stone like it's supposed to, especially once it's weighted down with sauce, cheese, and toppings (usually some browned turkey sausage). The two times that I have tried to do this (AB's recipe makes two crusts of this size), I have ended up with a triangular pizza with curved sides.
AB says to flour one's peel (that big paddle you see at pizza joints) so it will slide. No go, muchacho. I've ended up using a spatula to coax the pizza off the peel, which is what gives it that triangular shape. Conventional wisdom says to use corn meal instead of flour -- it's coarser and facilitates the slide of the dough off the peel surface. That's what I'll try tonight. Stay tuned.
I'm experimenting with the blogger template a bit – I want to get the archives contained to a subdirectory, but I'm not sure that feature works with all templates. Not that it matters, particularly, but I'm anal about file management on web servers. I'm also a bit early to start worrying about archives; they're supposed to happen weekly and I haven't even been doing this for a week yet. I'll put the links back into the template after a bit, once I'm sure archiving works and once I'm sure I want to use this particular template.
AB says to flour one's peel (that big paddle you see at pizza joints) so it will slide. No go, muchacho. I've ended up using a spatula to coax the pizza off the peel, which is what gives it that triangular shape. Conventional wisdom says to use corn meal instead of flour -- it's coarser and facilitates the slide of the dough off the peel surface. That's what I'll try tonight. Stay tuned.
I'm experimenting with the blogger template a bit – I want to get the archives contained to a subdirectory, but I'm not sure that feature works with all templates. Not that it matters, particularly, but I'm anal about file management on web servers. I'm also a bit early to start worrying about archives; they're supposed to happen weekly and I haven't even been doing this for a week yet. I'll put the links back into the template after a bit, once I'm sure archiving works and once I'm sure I want to use this particular template.
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