Hey Brenda! King Arthur question
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Thanks - I was pleasantly surprised by how it turned out! I've made plenty of pizzas - they never turned out like this. Main things that I think made it good:
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Good dough recipe
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Hot oven - I had it at 550
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Seasoned cast iron pan (I'm irrationally finicky about the seasoning on this cheap ass pan. Melted cheese slides right off... mostly)
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Oh MY. Amazing!
Did you use that Forkish recipe you mentioned before?
Did you do the cheese under the sauce too?
I bought a cast iron pan just for this recipe a few months ago. Still not been used, and only seasoned once. I think I’ll season it again before I do the recipe.
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Xenon, did you preheat your pan before you put the pizza in?
I think we may try shrimp pizza tonight. It's something we had on our honeymoon. We decided to stay in one night and I called this place and asked for white shrimp pizza. my instructions were 'If I can see anything under the shrimp there aren't enough shrimp. add more. Cost is irrelevant'. i think it ended up being like $30 in 1991. but it was damn good with all the champagne.
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Xenon, did you preheat your pan before you put the pizza in?
I think we may try shrimp pizza tonight. It's something we had on our honeymoon. We decided to stay in one night and I called this place and asked for white shrimp pizza. my instructions were 'If I can see anything under the shrimp there aren't enough shrimp. add more. Cost is irrelevant'. i think it ended up being like $30 in 1991. but it was damn good with all the champagne.
@Mik said in Hey Brenda! King Arthur question:
Xenon, did you preheat your pan before you put the pizza in?
I think we may try shrimp pizza tonight. It's something we had on our honeymoon. We decided to stay in one night and I called this place and asked for white shrimp pizza. my instructions were 'If I can see anything under the shrimp there aren't enough shrimp. add more. Cost is irrelevant'. i think it ended up being like $30 in 1991. but it was damn good with all the champagne.
Awesome. Was it soggy? Because the shrimp density would absolutely mess with the baking instructions. If it wasn't, they knew what they were doing. -
@Optimistic i used the Forkish recipe, but it’s similar. Same dough hydration, but no oil in the dough. Also less yeast but longer rise time. Methodwise, I followed the recipe quite closely, but my dough didn’t rise that much in the 2 hours it sat in the pan. It was jiggly though.
Also - for this recipe, as long as your pan is kinda seasoned and oiled, you should be fine. It won’t stick much.
@Mik did not preheat the pan. I have in the past, but my results weren’t great. Dunno if it was because of the preheating or poor dough in the past.
Preheating also kick starts the dough cooking process when you place the dough in. But the dough cools a bit as you make the pizza. (I guess you could drop in a pre-shaped one with a peel - I never did)
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I’ve never used my cast iron without pre-heating. But in the book I’ve been using (Flour Water Yeast Bread) - the author specifically uses a non-preheated skillet for pizza. He uses preheated Dutch ovens for all his bread recipes.
This specific recipe on the KA site also does not call for preheating the pan (you can’t since the final dough rise is in the pan).
The results have been surprisingly good.
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