pizza delivery into oven

[ptone]

Re: pizza delivery into oven

hmm - I make the pizza on a slab of marble, put a pinch of my rice/semolina mix on my alum. peel, then pull edge of pizza onto peel, give it a shove and it slides right on, have had few problems.

-P

[Giulio]

Re: pizza delivery into oven

im of to the lakes this weekend.Ill try the polenta/cornmeal9rice flour if I can find some and report.Thanks for all the useful tips

[dmedico]

Re: pizza delivery into oven

do not use cornmeal/polenta...it burns in the oven. flour is your best option.

yes, I drag, or build on the peel. they both work and you always re-shape a pie before you send

I agree, a pizza with mounds of toppings will not "drag" onto a peel well. but the equation, assuming a margherita pizza, is relative to temperature of the dough, hydration and BENCH FLOUR!!! you can drag the dough even with low protein levels (<11.5%), high hydration, cool dough temperature and you have sufficient bench flour!

[Giulio]

Re: pizza delivery into oven

just had the weekend at my shackand had a very successful session delivering pizza using the polenta/cornmeal.
had a good bread ,biscotti,rice pudding session.

[jimmylorenzetti]

Re: pizza delivery into oven

At home you could use a parchment paper. I use cornmeal for years but at this pizza place i used to work at they used parchment paper to keep the ovens a little cleaner and the crust always crisped up just fine and no one new the difference.