{"id":7072,"date":"2023-06-14T09:00:35","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T13:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/?p=7072"},"modified":"2023-06-14T09:33:19","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T13:33:19","slug":"my-perfect-pan-tomato-pie-by-bob-radcliffe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/my-perfect-pan-tomato-pie-by-bob-radcliffe\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;My Perfect Pan Tomato Pie,&#8221; by Bob Radcliffe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">Note from Peter: Bob Radcliffe was one of our first guest\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><b>columnists, way back from when we were still out on the road making fun videos with famous pizza makers. <\/b><\/em><em><b>At Bob&#8217;s Lynch Creek Farm,\u00a0<\/b><\/em><em><b>located deep in the Rocky Ford countryside of North Carolina, he established the non-profit Ben Franklin\u00a0Society and supports it with freshly baked breads and\u00a0special pizza events featuring his signature Wood-Fired Oven Tomato Pies. \u00a0The development of the pizza recipe is documented\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/tomato-pie-rocky-ford-and-me-part-one\/\">here<\/a> on Pizza Quest beginning back in 2014, as part of Bob&#8217;s personal quest to re-create the pizzas of his youth in the Philadelphia area (where he and I are both from, along with the great Ben Franklin himself). \u00a0Now, nearly ten years after the original post, Bob continues the unfolding of his never-ending quest. We&#8217;ve said it before, and we&#8217;ll certainly say it again (as Bob so clearly demonstrates), it&#8217;s more about the quest than it is about the pizza, and the quest never ends&#8230;.<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7083\" style=\"width: 838px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7083\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7083\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/TPF-Cabin-Panorama.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"828\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/TPF-Cabin-Panorama.jpg 828w, https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/TPF-Cabin-Panorama-300x114.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/TPF-Cabin-Panorama-768x292.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 828px) 100vw, 828px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7083\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lynch Creek Farm, Rocky Ford, NC<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><strong>Hello Pizza Quest readers<\/strong>. \u00a0I wrote a 7-part series of articles for Pizza Quest in 2014 titled, <em>Tomato Pie, Rocky Ford, and Me,<\/em> about my\u00a0outdoor wood-fired oven Tomato Pie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/tomato-pie-rocky-ford-and-me-part-one\/\">(https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/tomato-pie-rocky-ford-and-me-part-one\/<\/a> ). \u00a0<\/span>Until I recently read Peter\u2019s <em>\u201cPERFECT PAN PIZZA<\/em>\u201d book, I was never motivated, nor felt confident, to try and replicate my Tomato Pie indoors in my Log Cabin Electric Oven.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Could I transform my Perfect Individual Tomato Pies into a Pan-sized version?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Would it taste the same? What would my customers say?<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Let\u2019s find out .<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7079\" style=\"width: 588px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7079\" class=\" wp-image-7079\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/TPF-6-Outat15minutes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"578\" height=\"645\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/TPF-6-Outat15minutes.jpg 1422w, https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/TPF-6-Outat15minutes-269x300.jpg 269w, https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/TPF-6-Outat15minutes-918x1024.jpg 918w, https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/TPF-6-Outat15minutes-768x857.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/TPF-6-Outat15minutes-1377x1536.jpg 1377w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 578px) 100vw, 578px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7079\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bob&#8217;s Pan-Baked Tomato Pie<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cDeep Dish\u201d vs. \u201cSheet Pan\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wanting to retain my crisp, thin crust, I chose to develop a \u201cSheet Pan\u201d, not a \u201cDeep Dish\u201d version.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 This would allow me to<\/span>\u00a0use the Standard \u00bd-Sheet Baking Pans (12\u201dx17\u201d)<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 that\u00a0<\/span>I had, not the deeper 2&#8243;sidewall Steel Pans that Peter described in his book.<\/p>\n<p>To pull this off, my non-traditional \u201cwet\u201d dough recipe needed adjustment.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>My baking strategy and cooking times had to yield a crisp undercrust using a 500-degree, not 650+degree oven.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I felt comfortable maintaining the unique \u201cupside-down\u201d approach I use to make my individual, hearth-baked \u00a0&#8220;Tomato Pies&#8221; (dough-&gt;black pepper-&gt; garlic-&gt; sliced cheese-&gt; sausage-&gt; and tomatoes baked in the oven; then removed, and then olive oil-&gt;toppings-&gt; parmesan-&gt;kosher salt-&gt;and basil leaf added).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>My toppings now needed special attention.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7085\" style=\"width: 790px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7085\" class=\" wp-image-7085\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/TPF-TomatoPie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"585\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/TPF-TomatoPie.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/TPF-TomatoPie-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/TPF-TomatoPie-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7085\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The original wood-fired version.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0&#8212;<\/span> If you are unfamiliar with my original <em>Wood-Fired Oven Tomato Pie<\/em> recipe:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 the\u00a0<\/span>dough is ciabatta-like;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>whole-milk mozzarella is thinly sliced (not cubed);<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 the s<\/span>ausage is homemade and cooked on-the-pie;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>and the tomatoes are imported &#8211; ROSA-brand, Whole San Marzano Tomatoes canned in paste with basil &#8211; that I individually slice, prep ahead, and cook on-the-pie.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I only use olive oil on the finished pie \u2013 none in the dough, on the dough, or on the sheet pan \u2013 preferring crisp slices that never burn the roof of your mouth. In other words,\u00a0<em>I prefer to bake, not fry, the dough!<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7086\" style=\"width: 739px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7086\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7086\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/TPF-WoodfiredOven.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"729\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/TPF-WoodfiredOven.jpg 729w, https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/TPF-WoodfiredOven-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 729px) 100vw, 729px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7086\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The wood-fired oven started it all.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8212; I always use the highest protein content (14.2%) King Arthur <em>Sir Lancelot<\/em> flour with my \u201cwet\u201d dough recipe, but needed to discover how to spread and bake it on a sheet tray.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 After m<\/span>any sample recipe adjustments and test bakes, I decided to increase the yeast content by 25%, and to use 20-oz of dough per sheet pan.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I now refrigerate each dough piece overnight in a 1-gallon, zip-lock bag.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Parchment Paper vs. Olive Oil:\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>It is essential to use Parchment Paper with a light coating of Semolina Flour to line the tray (and sides) to curtail sticking.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Spread the \u201cwet\u201d dough gently with your fingers to about \u00bc\u201d thickness and let the dough rest, then further spread to fill the sheet tray and rest (3 times). After baking about 15 minutes at 500-degrees, slide the parchment paper and dough together off the Sheet Tray, then lightly coat the sheet pan with semolina flour and slide the par-baked dough back on, adding the sliced cheese, tomatoes, and other toppings, resuming the bake until crisp (another 15 minutes).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>This keeps the &#8220;Pie&#8221; from sticking to the pan without oil, and makes the under-crust taste like my outdoor Wood-fired Oven version.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0&#8212; Note:\u00a0<\/span>I saut\u00e9 and season my mushroom and spinach toppings beforehand, but add mushrooms to the pie while it&#8217;s in the oven, and add the spinach afterwards. Then I squeegee olive oil on the perimeter and a bit over the center, then coarsely-grated Parmesan cheese, and a touch, of course, of kosher salt, and torn basil leaf.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0<\/span>The finished crust is sturdy enough for slices not to fold, and average about 1\/4\u201d thick.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I was not interested in creating a thicker <em>Sicilian-style Pie<\/em>, but rather a crispy, thin-crusted one, like those from my Wood-Fired Oven.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The added yeast helps achieve this result.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>When cut into 12 rectangular pieces, 4 patrons can be served buffet-style.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0&#8212;<\/span>Next I slide the Pie onto a Butcher-block cutting board where I cut the Pie into rectangular pieces (2 x 6) with a round cutting wheel.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Then, as usual, plate 3-4 slices on our 14\u201d round aluminum pizza trays with a spatula.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7077\" style=\"width: 1127px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7077\" class=\" wp-image-7077\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/TPF-4-CheeseandSausage.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1117\" height=\"1204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/TPF-4-CheeseandSausage.jpg 1353w, https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/TPF-4-CheeseandSausage-278x300.jpg 278w, https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/TPF-4-CheeseandSausage-950x1024.jpg 950w, https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/TPF-4-CheeseandSausage-768x828.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1117px) 100vw, 1117px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7077\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Upside down&#8221; construction, with sliced cheese first (on the par-baked crust), followed by the other ingredient layers.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Observations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>I have been told by devotees of my Outdoor Wood-Fired Oven Tomato Pies, that my Indoor Sheet-Pan Tomato Pies are outstandingly familiar, only lacking the oak wood aroma.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>It is notable that preparing my Tomato Pies, indoors, is much easier and less time-consuming than working outdoors with my Wood-fired Oven.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Timely service for a larger audience is now possible.<\/p>\n<p>With my new \u201cSheet Pan Tomato Pie\u201d recipe, I can also expand my <em>Ben Franklin Society Non-Profit<\/em>, <em>Fund-raising Tomato Pie Buffet<\/em>\u00a0events at Lynch Creek Farm &#8211; from seasonal only to, now, year-round.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conclusions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>As you have read, my recipe and baking technique differs somewhat from that described in Peter\u2019s <em>\u201cPerfect Pan Pizza\u201d<\/em> book. Most important, though, was that the book gave me the inspiration to try.<\/p>\n<p>Comically, the <em>STAR-Kosher Sabbath Mode<\/em> feature of my Kitchen-Aid Oven became problematic while testing, and clearly demonstrated the complexity of using a modern digitally-controlled oven vs. the simplicity of an &#8220;analog&#8221; wood-fired one.\u00a0I discovered that both ovens can bake great <em>Tomato Pies.<\/em> I now believe that my \u201cSHEET PAN-BAKED TOMATO PIES\u201d are, at long last, PERFECT.<\/p>\n<p>With summer looming, my next challenge is to try baking these Sheet Pan Tomato Pies in my Wood-Fired Oven?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 Talk about full-circle &#8211;s<\/span>tay tuned!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7081\" style=\"width: 1540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7081\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7081\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/TPF-10-offTrayonCut12Pieces.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1530\" height=\"1674\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/TPF-10-offTrayonCut12Pieces.jpg 1530w, https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/TPF-10-offTrayonCut12Pieces-274x300.jpg 274w, https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/TPF-10-offTrayonCut12Pieces-936x1024.jpg 936w, https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/TPF-10-offTrayonCut12Pieces-768x840.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/TPF-10-offTrayonCut12Pieces-1404x1536.jpg 1404w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1530px) 100vw, 1530px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7081\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My &#8220;perfect&#8221; pan-baked &#8220;Tomato Pie&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note from Peter: Bob Radcliffe was one of our first guest\u00a0columnists, way back from when we were still out on the road making fun videos with famous pizza makers. At Bob&#8217;s Lynch Creek Farm,\u00a0located deep in the Rocky Ford countryside of North Carolina, he established the non-profit Ben Franklin\u00a0Society and supports it with freshly baked breads and\u00a0special pizza events featuring his signature Wood-Fired Oven Tomato Pies. \u00a0The development of the&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/my-perfect-pan-tomato-pie-by-bob-radcliffe\/\" title=\"Read More About &#8220;My Perfect Pan Tomato Pie,&#8221; by Bob Radcliffe\" class=\"btn btnred\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[633,113,374,796,33,114,575,992],"class_list":["post-7072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-s14-guest-columns","tag-ben-franklin-society","tag-bob-radcliffe","tag-forno-bravo-ovens","tag-perfect-pan-pizza","tag-peter-reinhart","tag-pizza-quest","tag-tomato-pie","tag-upside-down-pizza"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;My Perfect Pan Tomato Pie,&quot; by Bob Radcliffe - Pizza Quest with Peter Reinhart<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/my-perfect-pan-tomato-pie-by-bob-radcliffe\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"&quot;My Perfect Pan Tomato Pie,&quot; by Bob Radcliffe - Pizza Quest with Peter Reinhart\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Note from Peter: Bob Radcliffe was one of our first guest\u00a0columnists, way back from when we were still out on the road making fun videos with famous pizza makers. 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