My son’s pizza just had bacon and regular shredded mozzarella.
So I’ve been making Pan de Cristal King Arthur Recipe a lot lately. It’s so easy, and I tried to use it for pizza dough yesterday. It could have been divided better, my son’s pizza photo doesn’t do it justice, that shit tured into a crater as it cooled, and it looked amazing.
Did it cook all the way through… this was my main concern. The bread takes an hour to cook, and pizza usually only 20 mins, so, not at first, I had to cover the top so it wouldn’t burn while I cooked it an additional 15 minutes, and then even heated them slightly on the stovetop so the bottom could finish em because I was concerned about it. Definitely had a learning curve here. But they tasted phenomenal. I’ve still got tomatoes giving from my plants, and made a quick sauce. Added dehydrated chopped garlic to the bread dough.
Happy family!
Looks great, and not to be a Negative Nelly, but you might want to check two things, in future–
If it helps, I understand that pre-heated pizza steels are incredibly good at helping to simulate the heat delivery of brick oven pizza (which reduces baking time). Both the steel and “pizza peels” (like a huge spatula) can be had combined for… I think around US$60 or so, new. A bit of corn or wheat flour can be used to help prevent things sticking.
(I have a peel, but only a couple pizza stones right now. Looking to upgrade in future…)
I definitely know all of this. Why I clipped the edges of the parchment after the transfer and before the cook.
I preheat my cast irons at 450°F for an hour, there is cornmeal under the dough on the parchment. A pizza stone is cool, but I don’t have one and love my cast iron babies.
With normal pizza dough, the process is different than what I did here. I don’t use parchment with standard pizza dough. This is a 100% hydration dough, and took a 1.5 hour rise after shaping it. It’s not as sturdy as pizza dough, and transferring it would have been very difficult without the aide of the parchment. There was no burning on the parchment, no sticking except for one small corner that slid into the dough on the smaller pizza, I managed to get it out though. Came clean out the pans.
I use unbleached parchment, I don’t know if it contains pfas or not, but I appreciate you being concerned for food safety. You could also let me know my gas stove is going to give me cancer. You gotta pick your battles sometimes
Good to hear!
Most cooks seem to use PP in the direct cooking, hence my concerns above. Not unlike sous vide cooking, which seems like a great idea taste-wise, but a pretty sketchy one health-wise, in which the food will commonly absorb compounds leeched out of the plastic.
Btw, I suspect those cast-iron pans (being metal) are in fact much more efficient than pizza stones, being… stone, eheh. They can store more heat and transfer it more efficiently as I understand it.
Buen provecho. 😊
Naw I hear you with the plastics. I’m glad to know someone else cares about it.
I’ve spent the last idk, ten years or so removing plastic usage (any single use stuff) from my kitchen as much as possible. We po’ folk, yet we use fancy cloth napkins even. I’m making pulled bbq chicken today in the crockpot, I actually thought of your comment, ‘what if my crockpot has pfas or some shit leeching? It probably does!’
Lol so thank you for trying to inform.
From what I’m seeing, modern crockpots are completely safe to use (and awesome devices, like my beloved air-fryer!) when following guidelines upon their use, but there MAY be an issue with older ones from some decades back, which evidently used ceramic glazes containing lead.
I reckon a quick bit of research on whatever model you have should quickly clear that up…