Made my first pizza today

[RichieZ]

Simple margherita pizza, used my pizza stone and peel for the first time. Had a little trouble getting the pizza off the peel even though I dusted it with cornmeal. Any tips?

2/15/2016 UPDATE: A little over a year later, much progress w/ homemade dough 24h cold fermentation:

 

[Printer Bandit]

mouth watering. good stuff :thumbsup:

 

[xaeniac]

not bad; what kind of flour?

 

[Fritzo]

Heat the stone in the oven. You want the oven to be around 450F.

 

[Maximilian]

Well done, looks tasty :thumbsup:

This is my first:

Tasted better than it looked.

 

[sandorski]

Well done, looks tasty :thumbsup:

This is my first:

Tasted better than it looked.

Looks real good. So it must have been awesome.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Nice. I need to try this some day. What is typically used for cooking, something like this?

http://www.amazon.ca/Lodge-P14P3-14-...ords=pizza+pan

Also how do you store it after, do they make containers that are the shape and size of a pizza box? If I was to get into that I'd probably do it in large batches then freeze them, as I'd probably end up with lot of extra toppings if I do just one.

 

[Matthiasa]

Umm I have been told here that its not what it looks like on top but what it looks like on the bottom that matters.

Otherwise looks good to me but I would need a few of those to fill me up.

As for tips watch dough moisture and additional flour or cornmeal on the peel.

Alternatively another way way is touch the peel to the the stone for a tiny bit to just barely start to cook the bottom crust to make it come off really easy (given how thin the peel is and that its metal).

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Had a little trouble getting the pizza off the peel even though I dusted it with cornmeal. Any tips?

Two possibilities and a workaround.

1) Not using enough cornmeal. A dusting isn't enough, you have to go pretty heavy.
2) Dough too wet.

As a workaround use parchment paper under the dough instead of cornmeal. Transfer the pizza onto the stone with the parchment, it will cook and taste the same.

 

[phucheneh]

Quality hipster pizza right there.

I have an appreciation for how you could totally make it look like a normal pizza and still taste however you want it to...but you did it right: you made it look like the lopsided creation of a small poorly-coordinated child. You let people know- 'Hey, I made this fucking pizza, because I am hip. Fuck the establishment and their mass-market round pizzas. I am a beautiful and unique snowflake; I made this with instructions I found on the internet.'

 

[manimal]

Quality hipster pizza right there.

People in naples italy have made pizza like this for a century so STFU. Go hate on apple and your closeted homosexuality.


Over the line.

Perknose
Forum Director

 

[eldorado99]

Quality hipster pizza right there.

I have an appreciation for how you could totally make it look like a normal pizza and still taste however you want it to...but you did it right: you made it look like the lopsided creation of a small poorly-coordinated child. You let people know- 'Hey, I made this fucking pizza, because I am hip. Fuck the establishment and their mass-market round pizzas. I am a beautiful and unique snowflake; I made this with instructions I found on the internet.'

Yeah... that isn't "hipster" pizza. Whatever that means. noob.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neapolitan_pizza

 

[CraKaJaX]

People in naples italy have made pizza like this for a century so STFU. Go hate on apple and your closeted homosexuality.

Message approved.

 

[phucheneh]

Newsflash: most hipster things are old. Demonstrating your perceived superiority by doing things 'the right way,' like wearing sock suspenders and eating your Neapolitan pizza while riding your steam-powered unicycle, makes you retarded.

edit for clarification: it's not really that anyone cares if you do said things. It's that you shove them in other people's faces while screaming LOOK AT ME. LOOK AT HOW GENUINE AND NOT-HIPSTER I AM.

 

[eldorado99]

Newsflash: most hipster things are old. Demonstrating your perceived superiority by doing things 'the right way,' like wearing sock suspenders and eating your Neapolitan pizza while riding your steam-powered unicycle, makes you retarded.

edit for clarification: it's not really that anyone cares if you do said things. It's that you shove them in other people's faces while screaming LOOK AT ME. LOOK AT HOW GENUINE AND NOT-HIPSTER I AM.

speaking of perceived superiority...

 

[rh71]

I find the term hipster itself more annoying than actual hipsters.

 

[lozina]

How did a pizza thread end up turning into a hipster thread?

Pizza looks good! Better than my first

Did you toss your pizza in the air when stretching it?

 

[smackababy]

For using the peel and sliding it off, your dough was likely too wet or you didn't dust enough. There is a bit of finesse to sliding it off perfectly though. I make a pizza at least once a week. Once I learned to properly stretch my dough, I was in pizza heaven. Also, it looks like you went a bit too long in the oven. =)

 

[Mai72]

Give me a good Kashi pizza.

Deeeelllliciouus!

 

[Fayd]

Newsflash: most hipster things are old. Demonstrating your perceived superiority by doing things 'the right way,' like wearing sock suspenders and eating your Neapolitan pizza while riding your steam-powered unicycle, makes you retarded.

edit for clarification: it's not really that anyone cares if you do said things. It's that you shove them in other people's faces while screaming LOOK AT ME. LOOK AT HOW GENUINE AND NOT-HIPSTER I AM.

if someone has a steam powered unicycle, you're damn right i'm gonna look.

 

[DigDog]

well, i'm pretty good at the homemade pizza game, but i can't give you advice unless you give me the full, detailed process and ingredients you are using.

however, i can give you *one* advice;

are you using an electric oven?

gas ovens burn gas, and oxygen with it, so they have a vent in the back to cycle air. electric ovens do not have it, obviously, since they don't need it.

what the vent also does is let out steam that comes from any water that might be in whatever you are cooking. so, gas ovens are dryer than electric ovens.

if you are using an electric oven then, when it's up to temperature and you put your pizza on the stone, jam a wooden spoon in the oven door, just enough to leave an half-inch opening. some heat will escape, but also some humidity, which will help make your pizza into the crispy goodness we italians love so much.

other than that, good work, keep practicing.

 

[mugs]

That looks like shit. Try making a pizza that tastes good, not a pizza that came from your local pretentious restaurant.

 

[Carson Dyle]

Nice. I need to try this some day. What is typically used for cooking, something like this?

A pizza stone, not a cast iron pan. Although the pan may actually work OK. Never tried it.

Also how do you store it after, do they make containers that are the shape and size of a pizza box? If I was to get into that I'd probably do it in large batches then freeze them, as I'd probably end up with lot of extra toppings if I do just one.

You wouldn't freeze finished, or even uncooked pizzas, but you can freeze the dough. Thaw it, roll it and/or throw it, top it, cook it.

 

[malbojah]

Best looking home made pizza I've cooked so far

 

[richardycc]

nice, I am getting a blackstone pizza oven and maybe their griddle for my outdoor kitchen that hopefully will get started next March.

http://www.amazon.com/Blackstone-157.../dp/B00CELFJ4A