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Default pizza dough made easy


"Cheryl" > wrote in message
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> On 9/25/2011 10:19 AM, heyjoe wrote:
>> IMO, from the very beginning, her dough looks dry and then she continues
>> to add "bench" flour to prevent sticking. Methinks, too much flour.
>> But it just goes to show how forgiving pizza dough is, as she got very
>> good looking results.

>
> I made another pizza dough and this one turned out dry like you describe.
> It was very good pizza at the end but it was so tough that I lost a
> filling. It was hard to roll the dough out as thin as I wanted it. I
> think if it was thinner, it wouldn't have broke my tooth.
>
>

You musn't roll pizza dough. You have to "throw it" like you see in pizza
parlors. This abuses the dough less, and preserves the "crunchy" crust you'r
looking for.

Kent, a pizza "junkie"