So I have been making pizza at home now since Xmas. Started out with an ooni fyra and got the bug and then upgraded massively to a pizza party emozione.
Spent the last 6 months making tonnes of pizza but up to now it had all been with pre prepared dough bought from the Internet. I'd tried ooni, great balls of flour and most recently gozney dough balls all with really good results.
I'd got to a point where I was happy enough with the stretching, topping and baking process to try out my own dough for the first time.
I tried Julian sissofo's simple poolish recipe. The poolish went well but I had huge issues with the dough being stick and not keeping shape. This I think was mainly down to me not knowing how to properly slap and fold for the first time you are meant to do it which id assume is the most critical part if you want a puffy dough. Managed to rescue it somewhat after asking chatgpt for some advice but wasn't expecting much from the final bake.
Well well, I was blown away by the final results given it's my first time from scratch and the problems I had during the dough process. Can't wait for my next try with the lessons I have learnt from today.
Advice / critique welcome from what you can tell from the pics.
by SimeoneLFC
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lol looks great!! Buying pre-made dough?? I could never! I hope you never go back!!
don’t fucking ask chat gpt for advice.
before slap and fold i like to let the dough sit for 15-20 mins just to autolyse and hydrate, plastic bench scraper, set myself a timer so i don’t give up and i just slapadaslapadaslapada that boi until it starts to take shape. Patience is rewarded.
What flour are you using? Try adding 4% by weight vital wheat gluten, that will make even cake flour strong enough
either way pizza looks great don’t worry yourself too much chasing those final few % of perfection. The end goal is good pizza and happy people