Anybody here cook?

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Originally Posted by tesco

My pizza making is not premeditated. :emo:

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If you try it, you might find it worth the slight extra effort.
I think you can freeze the dough too...I haven't tried that but it might make your hectic life easier.

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Originally Posted by tesco

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Originally Posted by Thatsgreat

I've got one word for you tesco, oregano. Makes a whole lot of difference.
The "drug-like" ingredient. You'll get better at not messing the cheese up fast, but somethings just don't come that easy.
Eventually you'll get the hang of the technique required to make that five star pizza. Keep on fighting that paste!

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I don't like really like oregano, I guess I should use small amounts.
Are you saying to put it on the pizza or in the dough?

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To put it on the pizza. I've never heard anyone put it in the dough though. But hell, you might be onto something here. Something big.

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Originally Posted by clocker

So NZB, you're a baker?
BTW, it's called "proofing".

I've been into baking for a while now, it's especially challenging here at altitude and the very dry climate.
I've been perfecting my French bread recipe/technique, this morning I'm making yeasted pancakes (made the "sponge" last night).

Next Saturday I'm making pizza, so I've been looking into recipes for that.

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Commercial baker, yes. You can also use the term prooving with regards to the fermentation process.

At home I love to muck around with pastry deserts. So far I've mastered Galaktoboureko and Baklava.

Good luck on your pizza clocker. The dough for pizza is meant to be savory and you're meant to get the flavours from the sauce/toppings.

It would take a special kind of crazy to like mucking with pastry on a commercial basis. :blink:

:shuriken:

Crazy things happen when you have Greek Cypriot parents and Turkish friends :shutup:.

Yeah, like hash in phyllo dough.

Trying a new pizza dough recipe I found in Cook's Illustrated (Jan./Feb. 2011).
It's a make ahead dough, so I'm going to assemble it tomorrow morning and bake it Saturday night.
Should be interesting, I hope.

Pics! Pics! Pics!

I'm just about sick of pizza now. A flat mate managers an Eagle Boys store so he brings home pizzas, deserts and sides every night.

Pics of what, a ball of dough?
Hardly must-see TV, is it.

Finshed product clocker ;).