My best pizza so far

by Puschkin

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  1. Hi all!

    I had some leftover ingredients so I made same bresaola with buratta, same as few days ago, but this dough was made with Caputo Pizzeria flour, instead Nuvola. I am personally really happy with the result, I probably could have baked it for 1 minute less, but it didnt bother us.

    So, Caputo Pizzeria flour is the way to go for home ovens, and In addition, I increased IDY in the recipe, which is bellow:

    **41-Hour Poolish Pizza Dough (65% Hydration)**

    Makes: 1 × 300 g dough ball (multiply as you like)

    **Total Formula**

    * Flour: 179 g (100%)
    * Water: 116 g (65%)
    * Salt: 5 g (3%)
    * Sugar: 2 g (1%)
    * Instant Dry Yeast (IDY): 0.20 g (0.1%)

    —

    **Poolish (30% of total flour**)

    * Flour: 54 g
    * Water: 54 g
    * IDY: 0.10 g

    **Fermentation:**

    * 10 hours at 24-25°C room temp (ideally 21-22, then it can go 12h)

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    **Final Dough**

    Add to the mature poolish:

    * Flour: 125 g
    * Water: 62 g
    * Salt: 5 g
    * Sugar: 2 g
    * IDY: 0.10 g

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    **Fermentation Schedule**

    * Poolish: 10 h @ 25°C
    * Bulk fermentation: 2 h @ 24-25°C
    * Cold fermentation: 39 h @ 6°C in fridge
    * Total fermentation: 41 h

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    **Flour**: Strong 00 pizza flour (W260–300) – Caputo Pizzeria

    **Yeast**: Instant Dry Yeast, local store bought

    **Oven**: Home Conventional oven, up to 275°C (has convection, didn’t use it, instead only top and bottom heater)

    **Baking Surface**: Pizza steel, 6 mm, on second from top rack, got it up to 350 °C (thinking of trying highest rack to shorten the baking and maybe getting bigger oven spring)