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Quoting the article "There is no need for performing any sort of kneading.", this is wrong, nearly every pizzaiolo (the person who makes pizza in a restaurant)
by maury91 8y ago
Quoting the article "There is no need for performing any sort of kneading.", this is wrong, nearly every pizzaiolo (the person who makes pizza in a restaurant) will tell you that you need to kneed for at least 25 minutes, this is to reach what is called "punto pasta" and by kneading you will help the dough to form gluten structure that will give elasticity and will preserve the air inside.
A little tip, if you want to make Neapolitan pizza, and you don't have an oven that can reach 460 Celsius, you should add extra virgin olive oil, this will raise the amount of time in the oven before the pizza becomes biscottata (crunchy and hard), in a professional oven the Neapolitan pizza cooks for around 2 minutes, and if the oven is not in the right temperature and so you need to cook it more the pizza becomes crunchy.
I recommend watching this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq90lUQUCUo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq90lUQUCUo (it has English subs).
- 613style 8y agoThe repeated stretching/folding/waiting process develops the gluten like kneading does. You can tell that his gluten development is fine from the windowpane effect in first picture.
- hendricius 8y agoOver time the dough will also properly homogenise. The starch will absorb the water.