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Homemade Pizza – 7 Questions And Answers On How To Make Pizza At Home
I really love pizza! I just love pizza! There are so many infinite variations for pizza and the best part about it is that it truly is an economical dish to make and it goes with anything that you can possibly think of from domestic beer to Dom Perignon Champagne!
I cook alot of pizza in my humble little kitchen and my friends and family are always asking me to make pizza for this or that function or gathering. I have even taught a couple of young singles groups in a local church how to make pizza at home and I know that everyone that I have taught to make a pizza will never look at pizza the same way again!
Well, along with making pizza for people and teaching people how to make pizza I inevitably have to answer questions about pizza making in the home. This is fine with me as this is what a teacher is for, answering questions. So, I thought I would share some tips with you on how you can make really impressive, tasty and mouthwatering pizza at home the way you
want it!
Here are five of the most common questions I get from friends, family and students about making pizza at home. These are fairly straightforward questions and you will see just how easy it is to make pizza at home.
1. Is pizza dough hard to make? No! There are hundreds of pizza dough recipes out there and it is not hard to make and you don’t need a bread machine to make pizza dough. How did people do it in the old days? By hand of course. You can however use a food processor to make pizza dough if you don’t want to do it all by hand. It’s not hard, you take your pizza dough ingredients and mix it up with a large wood spoon in a large bowl and then once fairly solid you take the dough out and put some flour on your kneading surface and knead it for a few minutes and then grease up the dough ball with a little Olive Oil and put in a bowl covered for about thirty minutes and voila’ it’s done and ready to use!
2. Does it take a long time to make the pizza dough? No! The steps above will take all in total to make the dough no more than fifteen minutes. When you oil up the dough ball and put some oil in the bowl you are going to put the ball in, that step will take about thirty minutes because the dough will have to rise, that is why there is yeast in pizza dough.
3. Can you make a pizza dough that does not take thirty minutes to rise? Yes! often I make a pizza dough out of flour, water, salt, olive oil, eggs, some butter and dijon mustard and some baking powder and it’s ready to use in ten to fifteen minutes depending on how much kneading you put into it. It needs no rising time and comes out really good and chewy!
4. Do I need to have a pizza stone? No! You make pizza on a pizza tin and there are many shapes and sizes of pizza tins out there. There are regular aluminum and non-stick versions of pizza tins. You can use a square baking dish to make Sicilian style pizza. You can also use the back side of a baking sheet to Make Your pizza. You can make pizza on the back of a cast iron skillet if you how as well. Now the truth of the matter is that a pizza stone makes the best crusts hands down! But just because you don’t have one doesn’t mean that you can make killer pizza in your home.
5. Do I have to have a pizza oven in my home? No! As long as your home oven can achieve high heat you will be fine! There are some big differences between the beast sized oven you find at the pizza shop or the brick style ovens you find in pizza shops and your standard home four burner stove/oven combo and naturally the first big difference is the amount of
heat that the beast sized oven can get over your oven. So in order for you to get pizza oven heat in your oven crank it up to 500 degrees and let it heat up for twenty minutes before you put your pizza in and your pizza will come out just fine.
6. Can you make a pizza on a BBQ grill? You bet you can! Just remember that when you want to make a pizza on the grill to heat the grill up for about ten minutes and then you need to brush your grill irons with oil to do two things: 1. season the grill iron and 2. to keep things from sticking to the grill irons. Then, here comes the trick: make sure you pizza dough is rolled out either round or in a rectangle to make grilled Sicilian pizza. Make sure you have your toppings and cheese close at hand. Put your dough on the grill for one or two minutes then take a pair of tongs and check the underside of your dough to make sure that it has turned a bit brown. Take the dough out with your tongs and put it on a platter of some kind and make sure uncooked side down on the platter. Put all your sauce, cheese and toppings on the lightly cooked side and the slip the pizza back onto the grill and cover the lid. Depending on your grill size and heat it should only take about five minutes or so and then you will have killer griller pizza!
7. Can you use a store bought pizza dough? Of course you can! There are many truly high quality pizza doughs on the market today in your local grocer or in specialty shops all over the place. Heck in some parts of the country and I am sure in yours you could go down to your local pizza shop and ask to buy a dough that is already made and it will only cost a few bucks and it is ready to go the second you get in the door of your home! In my humble opinion even if you buy a store bought dough or one from your local pizza shop you are still in control of what goes into it and on it and therefore this is still a killer homemade pizza!
About the Author
Easy Cooking is my first food blog. It is the marriage of my love of food and my humble urban kitchen in my very first home that allows me to cook in the fashion that I want. Prior as a life long apartment dweller I never had the kind of kitchen that inspired me in the way my very own home kitchen does. It is small, but it is mine! It is a small 35 square foot floor with a 10×8 wall to wall plan that is a three sided kitchen with long granite counter tops with a bend in each and full granite wall splashes. I have a small Whirlpool 4 gas burner stove/oven and Whirlpool over head microwave oven and both of these units accompany my Whirlpool side by side refrigerator. My kitchen is my favorite place in the entire house. Please visit my blog at: http://www.richardblainesezcooking.com today!
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