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Pizza grilled on oven grates crispy bottom without a stone or steel

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Rating: 4.5; Vote: 2

Sponsored by World of Warships! Register to receive 700 doubloons, 1 million Credits, 2 premium ships, 2 port slot and 7 days premium time when you use code READY4BATTLE2020 here Applicable to new users only. Want to play on console? For the dough 2 1/4 cups (530 ml) warm water 1 tbsp sugar (12 gl) sugar 1 tsp (3 gl) active dry yeast 2 tbsp (30 ml) olive oil 1 tbsp (18 gl) kosher salt 5 cups (600g) bread flour, plus more for working the dough additional oil for greasing the dough For the sauce 1 28 oz (828 ml) can crushed tomatoes (I like Pastene 'Kitchen Ready') 2-4 tbsp (30-60 ml) olive oil 1 tsp (4g) sugar 2 tsp (a fraction of a gram, I don't know) dried oregano For the cheese 24-32 oz (680-910 g) whole-milk, low-moisture mozzarella, freshly grated (6-8 oz / 170-225 g per pizza) grated parmesan for dusting (maybe 10 g per pizza) Start the dough by combining the water, sugar and yeast in a large bowl and let sit for a few minutes. If the yeast goes foamy, it's alive and you're good to proceed (if it doesn't, it's dead and you need new yeast. Add the olive oil and salt and 5 cups (600 g) of bread flour. Mix until just combined, then start kneading. Add just enough additional flour to keep the dough workable (i. e. not too sticky) and kneed until you can stretch some of the dough into a thin sheet without it tearing. (NOTE: You will probably need to add a lot more flour. The quantity I give here is just a base line to get your started) Divide the dough into four equal balls and put them in four containers (ideally glass) and lightly coat the balls and the interior of their containers with olive oil. Cover, and either rise at room temperature for two hours, or put them in the refrigerator and let them rise for 1-7 days. (I prefer the long, cold rise) For the sauce, simply mix together the ingredients When you want to bake, make sure your oven grate is reasonably clean, and position it near the top of your oven the second-highest position works best for me. Turn your broiler (Brits call it a grill) on maximum, and let it heat up the oven grate while you roll out your dough. The grate should be be hot enough to make a wet towel sizzle before you bake. Take the dough out of the refrigerator at the last possible moment it will be easier to get into the oven if it's cold. Lay a dough ball on a floured working surface and roll it out using a rolling pin. (Hand-stretching will result in a product that does not cook evenly with this method) Roll it until it's a hair thicker than your desired thickness, because it will stretch more on the way into the oven. Grease the top of the dough with a thin film of olive oil. Open the oven door and slide the top grate out as far as it will go. Carefully drape the dough onto the grate oil-side-down. If any large areas of dough around the edge are hanging down a great distance, try to grab them and drape them over the nearest grate, keeping in mind that the grates are hot. Slide the grate back under the broiler and close the oven door. When the dough is as brown as possible and a few little burned spots are starting to appear (should take about 3 min, slide the grate back out, flip the dough and rotate it 180 degrees. Use the back of a spoon to spread on a thin layer of sauce, followed by a dusting of parmesan and 6-8 oz (170-225 g) of mozzarella. Slide the grate back into the oven and close the door. Broil until the cheese is melted and browned to your liking, about 3 minutes. Consider rotating the pizza halfway through if it seems to be cooking unevenly. Remove the pizza directly to a cooling rack and let it rest for a few minutes before slicing
Date: 2020-05-22

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Comments and reviews: 9

Prateek
For me, I find it hard to work with wet dough. So I generally take a pan. Put some flour on it and put my pizza dough on it and roast it. Put a lid on as well to stop too much moisture leaving the dough. Then I proceed to put cheese, then sauce and veggies and top it off with mozz and then into the oven. (I use my microwave's oven mode which only reaches 200C there really isn't much space in there but I manage somehow) Although you won't get browning from that, you could just brown it on the pan by cranking the heat. I generally don't care about bottom colour tho. As long as it tastes good. Also yeah, baking sheet for me is the only way for me. That direct on grill is way too much for my clumsy hands. I will burn myself 5 times before I get the pizza on there XD
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Ziggaby
I liked this video, but this still needs refinement. It's so unsafe at first glance. Maybe with practice I will change my mind, maybe it isn't that difficult, but the speed necessary to handle the cold dough while also carefully ensuring even spreading across broil-hot grate seems too dangerous for the value of good pizza. Maybe there's a way to pre-treat the cooling rack so you have a safe, dedicated high-temperature cooling rack? Possibly by taking a run at burning off any coating chemicals in advance?
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Banfio64
why not preheat your baking sheet? (rather than the cooling rack) it may be thinner than a pizza steel, but it isnt going to fully cool down, and easy heat transfers works both ways, it'll heat up again just as fast. certainly not as heat efficient as using the straight up wire rack, but i would anticipate it being more finger friendly
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illwill1991
Have you ever heard of the self cleaning oven hack for pizza? I mean it's not the most safe method and it will definitely void your warranty but for a guy who's made what is it now? 4 or 5 videos on New York style pizza! It's probably the closest anyone can get to pizza oven quality pizza at home with no special equipment.
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Benjamin
Throw the pizza dough on a sheet of parchment paper, slide that onto the hot rack in the oven (you can even use a cookie sheet to slide it on there. Still get the heat transfer from the racks, and you can ditch the parchment once it's cooked on the back side, since the dough is firm enough to work with easily.
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David
I ve found a cast iron skillet on the cooker for a minute or two and then under a grill (broiler) on high for a minute or two. Gets pretty damn close to a proper Neapolitan pizza. Leopard spots and all. No good for a huge American style pizza though. Unless you own a huge skillet.
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Keith
I actually found an alternative (sort of) I used one of those metal trays and preheated it a bit. It worked fine because my oven has a heater on the bottom and the top so it actually gets decently crispy on the bottom. I do not suggest you try this because idk how well it works.
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Dogman_35
This video has inspired me to give up on bettering my pizza recipe because everything involved with it seems super dangerous. My choices are either burnt fingers and cleaning my oven. or a giant 500 degree chunk of metal sitting in my oven. Both are just pure terrifying.
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Barchueetadonai
This looks like a really cool method. I would have a problem comparing it to New York pizza, though, which has a really thick crust in order to facilitate folding. The pizza from this method appears to have a crust that s barely thicker than the rest of the pie.
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