> How I Made the Perfect NYC Pizza (Full Documentary)
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@cjd I'm still trying to do one myself. I've had a pizza stone for almost two years now.
Maybe I should try a Chicago Tavern or a Detroit Style instead.
Apparently stone is the wrong choice unless your oven can do like 600F or more. If you want a good crispy bottom with an oven, go for steel.
I made some on Friday, I don't have a stone or a steel, but it came out okay - clearly no browning on the bottom.
Key points:
* Flour -> the cheap kind, salt, olive oil -> cold pressed
* 60% hydration
* 20 minutes autolyze
* 2 hours fermentation on the table
* 6 hours fermentation in the fridge (more is apparently better, but I started the morning of)
* Sprinkle semolina on the table when stretching
* Sauce is just "pizza sauce" from the store, 70g per 30cm pizza
* Cheese -> Low moisture mozzarella without anti-caking agent
* Cook at 270C (520F) top shelf
What I would improve:
* Like to try to get a slightly airier crust, esp. at the edges
* Skip the meat, it turns it into a "pepperoni pizza" (greasy)
* Try to cook at higher heat and/or use a steel to get the golden brown on the bottom
I made some on Friday, I don't have a stone or a steel, but it came out okay - clearly no browning on the bottom.
Key points:
* Flour -> the cheap kind, salt, olive oil -> cold pressed
* 60% hydration
* 20 minutes autolyze
* 2 hours fermentation on the table
* 6 hours fermentation in the fridge (more is apparently better, but I started the morning of)
* Sprinkle semolina on the table when stretching
* Sauce is just "pizza sauce" from the store, 70g per 30cm pizza
* Cheese -> Low moisture mozzarella without anti-caking agent
* Cook at 270C (520F) top shelf
What I would improve:
* Like to try to get a slightly airier crust, esp. at the edges
* Skip the meat, it turns it into a "pepperoni pizza" (greasy)
* Try to cook at higher heat and/or use a steel to get the golden brown on the bottom
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7Oh and also sprinkle in a little parmigiano reggiano to spice up the cheese flavor, I'd like to test that as well...
@cjd My oven can only go up to 500F so just 100 degrees too short, I guess.
By "cheap flour" do you mean all purpose flour because from what I've heard all purpose flour is the reason why most homemade pizzas suck.
In France it's labeled T55, but it just says it's "wheat flour". But it says 10% protean, so I guess that would place it as all-purpose.
I understand you can get better results with flour that has higher protean, maybe I'll give that a try too.
I understand you can get better results with flour that has higher protean, maybe I'll give that a try too.
@xianc78 @cjd I use a pizza steel and heat soak the oven for an hour on broil, which is 550 F. this is good for 3 small-medium thin crust pizzas, though the third one isn't as good as the first two
I used to use a cast iron pizza pan upside down on top of a stone as my cook surface and that worked well in a fairly wimpy electric oven. having lots of thermal mass that can transfer heat into the pizza quickly is the idea, and metal works better than stone for the transfer. I've heard of people using half inch aluminum plates but I've never tried it myself
I used to use a cast iron pizza pan upside down on top of a stone as my cook surface and that worked well in a fairly wimpy electric oven. having lots of thermal mass that can transfer heat into the pizza quickly is the idea, and metal works better than stone for the transfer. I've heard of people using half inch aluminum plates but I've never tried it myself
I'm currently up in the air about whether I should buy a steel, or attempt to import one of these into Europe:
https://bighornoutdoor.com/products/big-horn-outdoors-portable-infrared-broiler-propane-gas-grill-1500-degree-stainless-steel
Or else just buy a steel and a regular gas hamburger grill and cook the pizza in that...
https://bighornoutdoor.com/products/big-horn-outdoors-portable-infrared-broiler-propane-gas-grill-1500-degree-stainless-steel
Or else just buy a steel and a regular gas hamburger grill and cook the pizza in that...
I'm not a massive fan of Napoletana, partially because where I live, it kind of grows on trees. I'd like to hone in the NYC style just for some variety. And then I really want to try making pizza al taglio because I used to work next to a place that had that and it was SO GOOD.