Result of Pizza recipe changes?

[wotavidone]

The other night I made a dough with no olive oil in it.
Previously I had been adding about 2 tablespoons of olive oil to about 800g flour. It had all been working, but I was getting a bit frustrated about getting the underside of my pizza crispy.
So I tried this:
1000g plain flour and 600g water in a large bowl.
Mixed it with a spoon and let it rest to absorb the water for 20 minutes.
Sprinkled on 3 teaspoons of dry yeast and folded that into itself for 5 or 10 minutes.
Let it rest for 20 minutes.
Added 20g salt and folded that in for 5 or 10 minutes.
Put it in the fridge for a day and made pizza last night.
Made thin crust pizzas last night with a stone heated under my griller/broiler.
Best crusts yet, I think.
I'll be leaving the oil out in future.

[skan]

Originally Posted by wotavidone

Hola Skan,
I read the link on the FDA Acrylamide survey.
I am pleased to present my conclusions from my comprehensive study of the results:

Pizza is better for you than
Cookies
Black Olives
Crackers
Cereal
Bread
Sunflower seeds (that good 'ol health food staple of hippies everywhere )
Peanuts ans Peanut Butter
Wholewheat Bread
Bread
Prune Juice
Potato Chips and French Fries
Chili con Carne

Shout it to the rooftops bro' - PIZZA IS HEALTH FOOD

I didn't mean that pizza is less healthy than other foods but that pizza baked at low temperature is healthier than pizza baked at very high temperature.
Though maybe you are right and anyway pizza is healthy because is baked for a very short time.

[skan]

Originally Posted by wotavidone

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I'll be leaving the oil out in future.

Tomorrow I'll try different combinations myself.

[wotavidone]

I just realsied the dough recipe I tried is very close to the one Giggliato shared with us on this thread.
http://www.fornobravo.com/forum/f24/...one-16908.html (My favorite pizza from my stone)
I just need to get braver with the water additions and experiment with flour brands.

Thought I'd post a couple of short vids. My wife filmed me making a pizza with the oil free dough the other night. It took 5 minutes and 49 seconds to pull the dough out and put it on a board, lay the ingredients on, cook it and serve a steaming bubbling pizza.
Here's a couple of excerpts from the video she shot.
Cheese and bacon pizza - very ordinary, but if you don't cook what the kids actually like, they won't eat it, will they?

Pizza on a stone - YouTube

Pizza on a stone Pt 2 - YouTube