On Wed 04 May 2005 06:20:00a, Vox Humana wrote in rec.food.baking:

>
> "Mary Beth Goodman" > wrote in message
> ...
>> On Tue, 03 May 2005 22:55:17 GMT, "Vox Humana" >
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > > >You can make pizza dough in your food processor in under 5
>> > > >minutes.
>>
>>
>> Sounds so ridiculous, but I do this regularly with the recipe that came
>> with my cuisinart processor. I tried it the first time because I had a
>> real hankering for pizza and figured what the heck. Turned out Great!
>>
>> Takes longer to heat the oven up. And having a really hot oven is
>> important.
>>
>> I do use a pizza stone and also have a larger one for bread making.
>> Makes a real difference for the crust. I got the pizza stone on sale at
>> Dansk and consider it a real plus. I got a larger one later on because
>> the pizza stone wasn't big enough to bake two loaves of bread on.
>>
>> I'm sure glad I tried that recipe! It's a fun part of my week.
>
> Just to be clear, I make the dough in 5 minutes (mixing and kneading)
> but I let it rise until double - about another 45 minutes. My point is
> that if all you are doing is making the dough in a bread machine, then I
> think a bread machine a huge piece of one-use equipment that could be
> easily replaced with a food processor. I overlooked using the FP for
> dough making for years. Once I decided to give it a try (because of a
> message posted here) I was amazed. It doesn't seem like it would work
> well, but it does. And I find that it is a lot less messy than using the
> KA stand mixer.

I agree, Vox. I also avoided using the FP for years to make any type of
yeast dough until I saw several recipes for pizza dough. The FP is all I
use now for my pizza dough and it's much easier and faster.

--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*
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