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If you freeze your own pizza they taste pretty good, so I wonder why store bought pizzas don't. You can't bake good napolitan pizza at home but you can bake de
by jules 8y ago
If you freeze your own pizza they taste pretty good, so I wonder why store bought pizzas don't.
You can't bake good napolitan pizza at home but you can bake decent pizza at home as long as you change the recipe to be nontraditional. I make a very wet dough, let it rise, then spread it on olive oil greased sheets, rise again then pre bake the crust until it is firm enough to put on the toppings then bake again. The crust is like a thin focaccia.
- KozmoNau7 8y ago>"You can't bake good napolitan pizza" Yes you can. Good dough, high thermal mass (baking steel) and thorough preheating are the most important points. "Oh, but it doesn't get to 350/400/a quadrillion degrees like a real pizza oven does!" the peanut gallery cries. A lot of great pizzarias don't bake their pizzas above ~300 anyway. Just turn your oven way up and let it preheat properly. It is not properly heated when the indicator bulb turns off. Give it at least another 15 minutes to get the baking surface thoroughly warmed through. If water droplets don't show the Leidenfrost effect on the baking surface, it is nowhere near hot enough.
- jules 8y agoThe problem with low heat is that the pizza doesn't rise properly and the pizza needs to stay in the over for longer which makes the crust dry out. If you have a good oven and a pizza stone then you might be able to do it, but most people don't have that. My oven maxes out at 200 even though it claims to do 230.
- KozmoNau7 8y ago~240 here, and I've got a very high thermal mass baking steel.