Pizza Preparation and Baking
Pizza dough
- 30 oz. of white flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ¾ oz. of yeast
- 0.5L of warm water (about 22° C)
- 1 Teaspoon of Olive Oil
Sieve the flour and make a hole in the middle. Sprinkle salt around the edges. Dissolve the
yeast in a little water and pour it into the hole. With a fork, push the flour from the edge into the
yeast while adding the water and oil. Mix thoroughly. When all ingredients are mixed, knead
the dough well by hand while continuing to knead, pull and stretch. Form the newly made
dough into a ball and leave it covered for 3 hours in a warm place until it has risen to double
the size. Roll the dough out (thin) and form mini-pizza shapes with the cutter and (with
greaseproof paper between each circle) stack them up.
Preparation
After the dough is ready to be garnished and dressed, please follow the next steps:
Sprinkle flour/cornmeal on the pizza shovel and on the bottom of the clay slab so that the
dough does not stick to it upon placing and removal. Place the mini-pizza dough on the pizza
shovel. Coat the pizza dough with tomato sauce (not too much- you should still be able to see
the dough beneath the sauce; a thin layer is more than enough), leaving an edge (for crust).
First top the mini-pizza with mozzarella (or the cheese you prefer) and then with the other
ingredients that you have chosen. It is recommended that you do not use a large amount of
ingredients on top of the mini-pizza dough. If you use too much cheese or sauce, the pizza
may come out soggy. When it comes to pizzas, less is more!
Pizza baking
Slide the mini-pizza on one of the trays in one of three dome openings and place the mini-
pizza on the stone. You can bake up to six personal mini-pizzas at the same time. To insert
and take out the mini-pizza, lift up the terracotta dome with the pizza shovel, or slide it through
the opening.
The baking depends on:
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the type of dough
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the pizza toppings (and the amount of toppings)
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the number of pizzas being baked at the same time
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area conditions (temperature, draft-free place, etc.)
After the oven is heated up the mini-pizza should be ready in about 7 minutes (depending on
variables). Do not forget to watch the baking procedure the entire time. It is best to slide the
hot mini-pizzas onto a flat plate. We hope you have a great time making pizza
– and bon
appetit!
