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Sour Dried Pasta and Pizza
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Sour Dried Pasta and Pizza

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Sour Dried Pasta and Pizza. And, It happened again, You will not believe, but there's still those who insist on wanting prepare pizza exclusively with the yeast, even making a mess on the name, calling “Sourdough”. I was invited to dinner with friends and friendly hostess has prepared his specialty: Pizza with his staff sourdough! Logically the yeast (natural) He does not respond with force in the same way of the yeast, that, for the uninitiated, Also it is natural, then, We had dinner with a pizza absolutely unleavened.

Sour Dried Pasta and Pizza
Sour Dried Pasta and Pizza

But what is this blessed yeast? We do a bit of clarity saying: The brewer's yeast is not some chemical thing prepared illegally in some clandestine laboratory in a makeshift garage somewhere drug dealer.

garage and nothing pushers nothing, I'm sorry for you, the yeast is formed by colonies of a microorganism named Saccharomyces cerevisiae which is obtained by fermentation and did multiply. Washed and dried and gives life to the dry yeast, sold fresh in cubes gives life to the classic yeast that we find at the supermarket.

All this opening speech to finally get to the dried sour dough.

Sour Dried Pasta and Pizza
Sour Dried Pasta and Pizza

Sour Dried Pasta and Pizza

The dried sourdough is a powder that is added in bakery products in small percentages to improve the sensory characteristics of the product.

The structure of the bacteria and yeast that are present in the sourdough are very resistant all'essiccatura, then in the preparation of sour dough there is a complete deactivation of the yeast, for this reason when dried completely it loses its power fermentative. So dear friends, not just the simple addition of dried sourdough, but we must always add the yeast so that our yeast dough.

Why do you use the dried sour dough?

As with the classic leavened with the yeast you are obtained a mainly alcoholic fermentation with the production of a few different metabolites that are responsible for the aroma and flavor, adding the acid dried pasta dough, we will obtain a lactic and acetic fermentation also. This makes it better preserve the product, its aroma and its flavor.

Sour Dried Pasta and Pizza
Sour Dried Pasta and Pizza

Sour Dried Pasta and Pizza

And the pizza dough?

The pizza is a product that should not be stored for a long, on the contrary, the opposite is true, It should be eaten still hot, the smells and the flavors are prevailing data from the ingredients on the pizza, therefore all the possible benefits of dried sourdough do not apply to our beloved pizza.

Maybe dough bread……perhaps… any technician in the field with a good “nose” It may feel some difference.

Conclusion:

If it's pizza we want to talk, used strong flour, brewer's yeast, long rising in the refrigerator, few ingredients and good!! Just invite people to your home just to settle your “mother dough”, use it for bread, not for a good pizza! they are angry, I ate a pizza unleavened, It is absolutely not come to maturation, Rusk because cooked at very low temperatures and I had to get up twice during the night to drink water.

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The next time you decide to make pizza at home, starts in the right way, before buying the flour for the dough, carefully read our guide to the flour for pizza, click here to know which one to buy flour.

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Pizza dough type grip Romana

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Pizza dough type grip Romana. Fashion is not a sole that influences the way we dress, but at the same time also it affects the daily food that ends up on our tables. The pizza guy “Romanian Pinsa” It is the striking case of these last years. While until a few years ago it was a case restricted to one area of ​​Rome, Now the opening of new phenomenon “pinserie” It is involving some our entire peninsula. sprouting everywhere, often associated with words “bio” If it looks too fashionable in recent times. Do you think that in my small country within a week they opened their doors 2 new Pinserie.

Pizza dough type grip Romana
Pizza dough type grip Romana

We have extensively discussed the history of type grip pizza in our previous article that you can consult by clicking this link, Today we will talk about how to prepare the mixture of flour for the dough of this specialty.

Pizza dough type grip Romana

The ingredients that make up this special dough include the use of a strong wheat flour with a high W value that was approximately 350, to all this must be added the soy flour and the rice flour together with a small percentage of dried sourdough.

As always it happens in the preparation of the pizza, it all begins right from the purchase of flour for the dough. If you are real pizza lovers, I suggest you subscribe to one of our professional pizzaiolo courses at our school. All those who have attended our course, in addition to being experts in cooking and preparing leavening, They have a broad knowledge of the flour on the market, what to buy and how to use them to get it the perfect pizza.

Back to our Dough type grip Romana.

Prepare a mixture of flour type:

800 grams farina w300-w350

150 grams of rice flour

50 grams soy flour

a teaspoon of sourdough dried wheat as a improver

30 grams salt

10 grams EVO oil

yeast 4 the 5 grams

nota bene, This mixture will absorb 80 % water.

Use strictly cold water and what important dates so the dough to reach maturity, so a rise in the refrigerator long. Prepare the balls in the containers and place them in the fridge to 3 degrees centigrade for at least 48 the 60 hours.

Pizza dough type grip Romana
Pizza dough type grip Romana

Pizza dough type grip Romana

The pizza guy Pinsa Romana fragrant, basic and crisp edge and soft and fragrant interior, more digestible than plain pizza because of the long rising and high hydration, hypocaloric compared to the common pizza since the use of soy flour and rice flour, It differs from the older sister for a lower in calories and fat.

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Guide Flour for Pizza Which Use
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Guide Flour for Pizza Which Use

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Guide Flour for Pizza Which Use. This article contains the '”A B C” a pizzaiolo, a pastry chef or a baker. All those who are about to make pizza or bread in the store or at home should know perfectly the content of this post.

Guide Flour for Pizza Which Use
Guide Flour for Pizza Which Use

Guide Flour for Pizza Which Use

Flour…. because we do not give the right value to the flour that we use? Often we commit our first mistake in the preparation of the pizza from the choice of the flour we buy on the supermarket shelf. I'm tired of listening to complaints juxtaposed to a badly managed product, blaming your oven, leavening, the yeast that was not good or not has been put enough dough. From all this it was necessary to write again for clarification on this product which is the basic ingredient of bread in all the kitchens of the world.

Each flour has special characteristics which make it suitable for one or for another type of preparation.

We see all kinds of wheat flour, their use, the difference between their strength (The) and proteins, so we will be able to make the right choice in buying:

Guide Flour for Pizza Which Use
Guide Flour for Pizza Which Use

Guide Flour for Pizza Which Use

FLOUR 00

Flour 00 It is the most common flour, It is obtained from the processing of the inner part of the seed of wheat, to tell the truth when it comes to us, the 00 It does not contain anything more, considering that, in the grinding process are eliminated fibers, minerals and vitamins. It will surely be easy to work, but does not provide any nutrients to our body, Indeed there are many who say that it hurts, rich in sugars and difficult to digest.

FLOUR 0

Just less refined the 00, flour type 0 and widely used in bread making because it contains much gluten.

FLOUR 1

The high content of bran and wheat germ make flour 1 full of useful substances for our body. Very used for the production of bread, pizza, pastries and bakery products.

FLOUR 2

The flour 2 It is an integral seed flour, Highly textured and coarsely minced. Much easier to work with than the whole wheat flour. Precisely because of its degree of grinding the flour 2 leavens much more slowly than a 0 or of a 00. This type of flour is used in baking, a pizzeria and bakery for some types of sweets.

WHOLEMEAL FLOUR

The unrefined grinding, from this type of flour a grainy texture to the touch. It contains the highest number of nutrients seen that the whole is milled grain of wheat. Although its use is very limited as very difficult to work, it is the best. If you decide to buy it, try freshly ground whole wheat flour in stone, the slow grind does not overheat the grain that will keep all its properties.

Guide Flour for Pizza Which Use
Guide Flour for Pizza Which Use

The strength of the flour

The flour is also classified according to its power (The). the strength of the flour is the absorption capacity of liquids during the dough and the ability to retain carbon dioxide during the leavening (see the gluten network of the pizza) and it is measured according to the contained gluten protein (gliadina+ glutenina).

A strong flour will be used for long fermentation products such as bread, pizza, Christmas panettone and Easter cakes with cheese, A weak flour is suitable for production that do not require long rising, type pastry, brisè pasta etc..

The strength of the flour find it written on the same packaging, the unit of measurement is the W, the strength scale ranges from weak to stronger 130W 500W.

Here's how they are used:

weak flours up to 170W

These flours absorb about 50% of liquids and are ideal for leavened flour like cookies

Farine medie da 180W and 260W

Absorb in phase of liquid mixture that can reach the 65% weight and they are used for products that contain an average quantity of liquid as the rolls.

Farine forti da 270W and 350W

absorb the 65 to the 70% liquid and is ideal for PIZZA. For a good pizza often prepares a mixture containing flour Manitoba. The MANITOBA flour is often used to increase the strength of weak flour, It has its own force of about 350W and comes to even absorb 90% of liquid.

strong flour over 350W

These flours arrive to absorb up to 90% of liquid. They are often used by pastry chefs to prepare delicious Panettone and Pandoro.

In Italy, specialists in Complicating matters is in force the law number 580 which, with its subsequent amendments provides that the bag of flour classification is shown in terms of ashes or the minerals that remain intact after refining: more ashes are low and more the flour is refined.

Soft wheat flour type 00 – 0,55%
Soft wheat flour type 0 – 0,65%
Soft wheat flour type 1 – 0,80%
Soft wheat flour type 2 – 0,95%
Wheat wholemeal flour – 1,30% / 1,70%

Guide Flour for Pizza Which Use
Guide Flour for Pizza Which Use

The flour protein.

Even proteins ( Gliadina e glutenina) They must be specified by law on the bag of flour. The minimum values ​​of commerce have these:

Soft wheat flour type 00 – 9,00%
Soft wheat flour type 0 – 11,00%
Soft wheat flour type 1 – 12,00%
Soft wheat flour type 2 – 12,00%
Wheat wholemeal flour – 12,00%

The hard wheat flour

For wheat flour as not to further complicate things we have reserved a separate article that you can consult by clicking here.

I tend to have in my school pizza makers of the students who come from other countries where the flours are classified differently, so I prepared a helpful valid table for you if you decide to make pizza to your guests while on holiday abroad.

Classification of flour abroad:
Soft wheat flour type 00 – Pastry flour
Soft wheat flour type 0 – All pourpose flour
Soft wheat flour type 1 – High gluten flour
Soft wheat flour type 2 – First clear flour
Wholemeal flour – White whole wheat
Durum wheat flour – Durum wheat semolina

Flour!!! In our professional courses of pizza at our school of pizza, the flour is the basic argument that everyone should know. A pizza maker who attended our course will be able to prepare their own perfect blend of flour, depending on the type of leavening that want to do. To learn more about our professional courses CLICK HERE.

If you want to learn more about the flour, consultation wikipedia

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Semolina flour and semolina The Differences
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Semolina flour and semolina The Differences

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Semolina flour and semolina The Differences. One of the questions from readers of my site more often comes to me is to clarify what are the differences between the semolina flour, the semolina flour, common wheat and durum wheat used in bread making and in the pizzeria.

Semolina flour and semolina The Differences
Semolina flour and semolina The Differences

Let's deal with this difficult subject, especially for those who are not insiders.

Semolina flour and semolina The Differences

Distinsioni between common wheat and durum wheat:

from processing (grinding) the wheat you get the classic white flour, labeled in different types:

  • Wholemeal flour
  • Flour 2
  • Flour 1
  • Flour 0
  • Flour 00

categorized according to the degree of refining ( Flour 00 It is the most refined).

From the processing of durum wheat is obtained:

  • Wholemeal flour
  • semolina flour
  • semolina flour
Semolina flour and semolina The Differences
Semolina flour and semolina The Differences

Semolina flour and semolina The Differences

The semolina flour It is slightly more yellow in color than that of wheat, It contains carotenoids, It is grainy to the touch and is similar to a fine sand.

So from the milling of durum wheat not get the flour 00 one that all we commonly use, which it is of pure white color and its texture is similar to a fine powder.

Durum wheat: as for the wheat, There are different varieties of durum wheat, one in all that seems to be the most in demand is called “Senatore Cappelli” that has a low value glutinico, therefore suitable for those with mild gluten intolerance problems, but beware: It is not free of gluten.

semolina It is less refined compared to the semolina, intense yellow color and it is the ideal flour to make homemade pasta. It retains many of its natural scents, It does not overcook and is much more digestible than the other types of flour.

With the semolina flour you can not produce any type of product leavened, I do not know if you have ever tried, but you would get poor results, does not rise at all, result: A brick unleavened. Some pizza maker uses the flour on the bench during the writing of the pizza so do not stick to the work surface, but personally I consider it an invalid cunning, because the semolina grains feel in your mouth when you eat the pizza.

Semolina flour and semolina The Differences
semolina

The semolina It undergoes an extra step in the grinding phase becoming more subtle graininess. Even the color becomes lighter when compared to the semolina. The semolina is used in bakery and a pizzeria to produce characteristic bread and buns. Even the semolina is good to make homemade pasta, but it has a lower consistency, It takes less cooking and is more difficult to digest.

Semolina flour and semolina The Differences

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Pizza dough to Black Charcoal
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Pizza dough to Black Charcoal

Pizza dough to Black Charcoal. The latest trend launched by many pizzerias and bakeries is the black pizza, which it seems to be much appreciated by customers and many curious people who ask to taste.

Pizza dough to Black Charcoal
Pizza dough to Black Charcoal

I have to be definitely a predecessor of fashions with regard to black pizza. Do you think that at the beginning of my career as a pizza maker, about 40 years ago already I am doing this type of pizza. Alas I was using the wrong technique. My pizzas were black because often forgot in the oven and in addition to the black color also had a nice choreographic effect, They were surrounded by a toxic cloud of black smoke.

Pizza dough to Black Charcoal
Pizza dough to Black Charcoal

Pizza dough to Black Charcoal

Today to get this delicious product using charcoal, Yes just like this, The activated carbon, that in addition to the color black dough, It is rich in properties: It helps to keep down the cholesterol level and regulates intestinal transit. Activated charcoal in fact holds the gas resulting from the fermentation of food in our stomach, avoiding those swelling and you can also use it for gluten-free pizzas.

Pizza dough to Black Charcoal
Pizza dough to Black Charcoal

With regard to the use of this ingredient, There is a very clear European legislation:

The amount of charcoal that can be used in the dough is minimal, until 10/15 grams of charcoal for each pound of flour, so the much-vaunted benefits of activated carbon are being very minimal or even non-existent, the only real action carried out from the coal is then to act as a colorant of the dough.

Pizza dough to Black Charcoal
Pizza dough to Black Charcoal

Pizza dough to Black Charcoal

European law also prohibits the labels, the menus and on the advertising use to declare any beneficial effect for our body derived from the active charcoal. Do you think that the bread which is added this dye, It can not be labeled as “bread”.

Prepare the dough of black pizza is a very simple operation and can be summed up in a few simple steps.

The activated carbon for the food should be mixed with the flour during dough.

Pizza dough to Black Charcoal
Pizza dough to Black Charcoal

Use our classic recipe of the dough for homemade pizza house described in This our previous post. Add in proportion 10/15 grams of charcoal for each pound of flour to get a black mixture of spectacular beauty.

The flavor is absolutely identical, you will not notice any difference.

One of the pizzas better suited to achieve with the black paste is definitely the caprese pizza. Nothing more beautiful to look at the black base on which are arranged red tomatoes, white mozzarella slices.

Pizza dough to Black Charcoal
Pizza dough to Black Charcoal

Seeing is believing. The black slurry, like so many other delicacies that are part of the class “street food” They are an integral part of the program of our pizza maker courses offered daily at our school in pizza. If you are interested in participating in one of my courses, click here.

If you want to know how it is produced charcoal, I recommend you read this deepening of wikipedia

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Dough for Pizza with potatoes and Mediterranean Focaccia

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Dough for Pizza with potatoes and Mediterranean Focaccia

Dough for Pizza with potatoes and Mediterranean Focaccia. Among the many regional specialties that can be enjoyed along the peninsula, Figure a cake easy to prepare, soft yet tasty and fragrant to savor, The cake prepared with the dough made in part with potatoes. This machining, It does not have a certain origin, but it is used a little’ in all regions . Focaccia prepared with this mixture has among many peculiarities already mentioned, to remain soft and fragrant even the days of their preparation.

Dough for Pizza with potatoes and Mediterranean Focaccia
Dough for Pizza with potatoes and Mediterranean Focaccia

We come to show you how to prepare your home the dough with potato pizza and focaccia Mediterranean.

The ingredients for the preparation of the dough enough to 4 persons are the following:

Flour “0” Manitoba Type 600 grams

Potatoes 300 grams

Brewer's yeast 3/5 grams

Sugar 10 grams

Sale 10 grams

Water 400 ml about.

Dough for Pizza with potatoes and Mediterranean Focaccia

The preparation

Dough for Pizza with potatoes and Mediterranean Focaccia
Dough for Pizza with potatoes and Mediterranean Focaccia

The first step is surely that of the preparation of potatoes. Wash them well and put them in a pot, cover with cold water, boil for about 20 minutes, the cooking time varies depending on the size of the potatoes. To be certain of that baked, infilzatele with a fork.

Drain the potatoes, let them cool, peel and mash and grind into a puree creamy and smooth using a potato masher.

Dough for Pizza with potatoes and Mediterranean Focaccia

Dough

Dough for Pizza with potatoes and Mediterranean Focaccia
Dough for Pizza with potatoes and Mediterranean Focaccia

In a bowl pour water at room temperature and scioglieteci the yeast. Add sugar, the mashed potatoes and flour gradually. Add salt and mix well the mixture until it forms a soft and elastic dough.

Divide the dough into 3 balls and let dough rise in a tight container with a lid for a few hours, until the dough is doubled of its volume.

After completing the rising phase, roll out the dough and season to your taste.

One of the best toppings for this pizza is definitely the one that gives its name to a unique recipe: Focaccia Mediterranean.

Oil, sale, garlic and fresh rosemary!

Dough for Pizza with potatoes and Mediterranean Focaccia
Dough for Pizza with potatoes and Mediterranean Focaccia

To learn more about potatoes, consultation wikipedia

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Manitoba flour
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Flour Manitoba Use and Ownership

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Manitoba flour. Flour Manitoba comes from the regions of North America and Canada, in the lands that once belonged to the tribes of Indians. It is a strong flour, that contains a large percentage of protein (until the 18%) and it has a remarkable ability to absorb water (up to 80% of its weight). It is used to increase the strength of flour generally, especially to produce specialty breads and pizza.E’ a wheat flour (Tricia summer) semi-hard, famous for its high content of glutenin and gliadin, substances which upon contact with water, giving origin to gluten, a protein that during the leavening process traps the gas and allowing the “growth” the mixes forming the typical bubbles that are the structure of the bread, pizza and all leavened products.

Manitoba flour
Manitoba flour

Flour Manitoba Use and Ownership

Each type of flour contains gluten, and when it is mixed with the water it acquires a certain level of force (The) and it is this feature that distinguishes the different flours and ranges from <90W up to a 370W.

Manitoba flour
Manitoba flour

Flour Manitoba Use and Ownership

Flour Manitoba is perfect as a base for sweet pastry long rising high in fat as panettone, PANDORI, dove, while the weaker flours which possess a smaller amount of gluten is sgonfierebbero under the weight of the fat content.
The Manitoba flour is used exclusively in the form 00 that is a very fine grind, it favors the digestion and absorption, but everything at the expense of the glycemic and insulin.
Contrary to what you may think, then, not the Manitoba flour to make you fat, but are foods for which is used: Panettone, PANDORI, donuts, dove, growing.
Flour Manitoba Uses and properties in the dough for pizza.
The flour Manitoba, usually it is mixed to weaker flours when making dough long rising(24-48 hours) with very little yeast, which results in a pizza digestible, soft and crispy at the same time.

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Manitoba flour
Manitoba flour
Pizza dough
Dough, Recipes

Dough for homemade pizza

Dough for homemade pizza

Make homemade pizza is very simple if you have available the right recipe for pizza dough.

This is the recipe for preparing the dough for homemade pizza, the same as that in use for over a pizzeria 30 age, the same that I have passed the grandmother, the same ingredients are used today in all courses of pizza chef to prepare the dough for pizza. In short, there is a different recipe. On the net you often read nonsense, someone adds milk, even I read about someone who adds beer, some housewife uses carbonated water, but if you want to dine this evening with a pizza and not with a tart or a pizza bread, here is the list of ingredients:

Dough for homemade pizza

Recipe homemade pizza
Ingredients Note
Flour 500 grams DO NOT use flour with baking powder already mixed in, or mixtures of meals. If you want to eat your pizza tonight for dinner, used a normal flour type "0", if it is produced from some local mill even better.
Water 250 grams Your tap water is not cold, around 20 degrees.
Extra virgin olive oil 1-2 spoons It is not of fundamental importance, but a few tablespoons of oil will improve the gluten of your pizza.
Sale 5-10 grams (1-2 teaspoons) Shortly sale, and never in direct contact with the yeast. To avoid making mistakes, add it to your mixture near the end.
Fresh yeast 2-3 grams It's not a typo, fresh yeast 2 the 3 grams. Considers that a cube of yeast bought at the supermarket weighs 25 grams, BUY therefore only a few crumbs. The granular yeast is fine but being dehydrated ferments, leavening take longer tempo.Non absolutely use the baking powder in sachets with or without vanillin..

** Each type of flour absorbs water in varying quantities. Always check the proper consistency of the mix.

If there are clear these concepts, we move to phase 2: The Dough.

Dough for homemade pizza
Pizza dough

Pour into a bowl water, the crumbs of yeast and oil, add flour and sporcatevi hands. After the ingredients are blended, add the salt.

Dough for homemade pizza
Pizza dough

In 5 minutes your dough should be ready.

Dividetelo in 4 balls, cover with a cloth and let stand for one hour.

Recipe homemade pizza
Pizza dough em home

In the meantime you can prepare the ingredients for your fillings.

After the time necessary for leavening, grease with a little oil 4 round containers for bakery, also those of aluminum that commonly found in all supermarkets are fine (diameter 28-30 cm). Appoggiateci above the balls and press with your fingertips from the center outward. This can make it at home with a rolling pin if you find it easier.

Pizza dough
Dough

Season to taste and bake in the oven pre-heated to 200 degrees for 15 minutes or until the edge will be completely golden. Do not open the oven door to check the doneness of pizzas earlier than pleasant 10 minutes, you will have a total heat loss, with the result of eating a pizza elastic and rubbery.

Nothing could be simpler, Bon Appetite.

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Oil in pizza dough
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Oil in pizza dough

Oil in pizza dough

One of the most common questions I am asked by readers of my blog, is the following: This blessed oil extra virgin olive oil, should be added or should not be added to our pizza dough?

Oil in pizza dough
Olive oil

We begin this discussion by saying that the disciplinary STG Neapolitan pizza, extra virgin olive oil is not mentioned at all with respect to the dough, while it is appropriate to add a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil on raw pizza, before it is served to the customer.

Oil in pizza dough

I remind you that the disciplinary STG Pizza Napoletana is valid only for the pizzas cooked in a wood oven. So the oil should not be added in the dough, ...... but having attended for many years this area, I can assure you that is not entirely true. Many people (almost all) to add fat to the mixture, what kind of fat? One of the most common is the lard.

Oil in pizza dough

Olive oil is added to the dough when you want to get a pizza more fragrant, while the seed oil is added to the dough when it wants to obtain a product more but crispy.

It should be added to the mixture just before closing, while if prepared pizza at home and used a weak flour, the common supermarket, it is advisable to add, maybe with the water, to facilitate the ligament of proteins, allowing the formation of a gluten more homogeneous, which will keep the more gas that will be formed during the process of leavening.

My advice, is to add 50 grams of extra virgin olive oil per liter of water. Beware, because an excessive amount of oil may slow or even compromise the leavening.

Conclusion: In such cases, use oil

If you prepare a dough for pizza dish that is cooked in a wood stove, and the same pizza will be devoured by the customer 2 minutes, you can well do without adding oil in the dough.

If you are preparing a dough for pizza at home, to be cooked in a gas oven, electric or the small house, I suggest you add the extra virgin olive oil to the mixture in the amount of 50 grams per liter of water. Your final product, will prove to be better, as the pizza in the oven at home has a cooking more but slow, also 20 minutes in some cases, than a minute in the wood oven, I remind you also that the oil in the pizza helps to keep it warm longer, and this in our house could be useful.

And lard? Ma siiii, if we must make us sick, then we use lard instead of oil.

oil in pizza dough
Pork lard

What it says on wikipedia’olive oil

The drafting of the balls of pizza
Advice, Dough, preparation

Drawing up of balls of pizza

Drawing up of balls of pizza.

In the many years that I do this work, I've seen thousands of colleagues intent in drafting the balls of pizza. I must confess that there is a right way and a wrong way to roll out the balls, each adopts its technical staff and proven over time.

Drawing up of balls of pizza
The drafting

Drawing up of balls of pizza.

To have a successful, just follow some rules:

The dough should be well leavened, must have at least doubled in volume.

When you proceed to the drafting of the ball, we must never crush the edge, otherwise sforneremo a pizza without board. Matches from the center pushing the gases produced by rising to the outside.

Everything else…….practice, much practice. This is the main reason for which you attended a course for pizza.

For a pizza lying evil, which took a little presentable form, is preferable to a ball for pizza spread with a rolling pin. Will certainly have little border around, but the result will be better in terms of aesthetics.

I wanted to add a video to facilitate your task. A pizza maker takes on average just over 30 seconds for the drafting of the balls of pizza.

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