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Hey guys, salut, this is Alex welcome back to the crazy pizza odyssey's last episode sadly.
I will show you how to mix how to knead and how to flatten the pizza dough
This video is part of a series in which we attempt at making the most perfect pizza indoors, yes with a classic domestic oven
So click here if you want to watch it from the start or if you want to choose a specific episode
Well, that's right next week there won't be a pizza episode. Yes! But do not be sad.
Because in the future, I will upload some pizza episodes from time to time, so this video will be easy and step-by-step
But if you feel adventurous or more geeky or more curious
Then you should pop over on that video to learn more about the ingredients their ratios and proportions.
This recipe make three medium sized pizzas. In a big bowl
add 290 grams of water
Then dissolve 14 grams of salt in it. Add 35 grams of flour and combine things nicely
now add 1 gram of Fresh yeast
You can replace it by half a gram of instant yeast
You see the flour act as a buffer between the salt and the yeast I'm gonna kill you. I'm Gonna kill you
I'm Gonna kill you
Then gradually add the remaining 400 grams of flour while mixing constantly
After about 10 minutes of gentle mixing the dough needs to be kneaded for at least 20 minutes
So kneading the dough is a very important process
And you can do it by hand if you get strong muscles you can also use a kitchen robot, and I think that's it
It's all the options we have...
Let's make a badass kneading machine use a bike hook and find the thread
Cut out the disk in a plastic lid and make a hole in the center
Now glue that thing onto your bike hook
Clean it and insert it in my favorite tool ever ... the electric drill
You now have a very cool kneading machine
Knead the dough until it becomes smooth or smoothish
I know it's a tricky process, but you'll get over it.
At the end the dough should be sticky soft and elastic.
Cover it with plastic wrap and let it rise for 2 hours at room temperature
Then divide it in three parts and form the dough balls
Place them in an airtight container and let them rise at room temperature for another four to six hours.
Okay, so now the dough is completely ready and let me show you how to shape the dough balls in pizza disk. LEVEL 1
flatten the dough by pressing down with the flat part of your fingers.
As you can see I'm not flattening the rim because this will be the crust at the end
And that's why you can use a rolling pin for that as it would flatten the edges
Flip it over and repeat two times
Add some flour if you feel it sticking to the board
Now that you have a nice disc
let's go LEVEL 2
Lay down your right hand on the side and with the left one
Gently stretch the dough. Fold back the dough on your right hand and slap it back in front of you doing a quarter turn
Okay to make it a bit thinner we need to go LEVEL 3.
Place your hands under the dough and use the gravity
to give it a gentle stretch. I'm using a technique of my own. I know it's not perfect, but it works fine
Flour the pizza pick and place the pizza to be on it
in fact you can give it a final stretch with the ultimate pinching method. LEVEL4
with each hand pinch at two different spots using first the Index and the middle finger and
second the thumb and the ring finger
All you need to do now is to add the sauce and toppings as seen in previous
Episode and to bake it on steel as seen in another previous episode.
So guys that's it
I think that now you have everything you need to make a proper almost napolitan pizza at home with your domestic oven
So next week there won't be any pizza video
But as I told you the pizza odyssey not over I will post some pizza video
from time to time, now and then, once in a while, whatever.
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for many more crazy series like this one, bye bye, salut