Weekend pizza bakes from the developer of PizzaLogic. Real photos, real recipes, real notes.
Another bake test: 30% biga at 39°F for 24 hours, Detroit style. The goal was to validate a yeast calibration adjustment for cold-fermented biga based on user feedback that the current calculator...
Bake testing the new 100% biga setting that's coming in the next PizzaLogic release. Today the calculator caps biga at 50% of total flour. The next version raises that cap to 100% with share-scaled...
Tonight's bake: 2 large tavern-style thin crust pizzas. 55% hydration dough, 2-day cold ferment. Pizza 1 - pepperoni and cherry tomato. Pizza 2 - Italian sausage, red onion, diced cowboy candy, and a...
Switching it up this week: not a pizza. Italian meats and cheese stromboli rolled from a 3-day cold-fermented dough at 62% hydration. Filling - salami, provolone, pepperoni, whole-milk mozzarella,...
This week's pizza night: an easy same-day dough recipe. 62% hydration, 5.5 hours at room temperature, no cold ferment. Three 14-inch pizzas in the home oven on a stone at 550°F. Pizza 1 -...
This week's pizza night: New York style on the Ooni Koda 16. 3-day cold-fermented dough. Pizza 1 - pepperoni and bacon. Pizza 2 - BBQ pulled pork, red onion, and cowboy candy (pickled, candied...
This week's pizza night: 3 Detroit-style pizzas in 8x10 pans. 2-day cold-fermented dough. Pizza 1 - buffalo chicken, red onion, and feta. Pizza 2 - diced meatballs and ricotta, baked on. Pizza 3 -...
This week's pizza night: Sicilian style in 10x14 Lloyd grandma pans. 75% hydration, 3-day cold fermentation. The crust turned out incredible - crispy and crunchy on the bottom and edges, chewy and...
This week's pizza night: 4 cold-fermented sourdough Neapolitan-style pizzas cooked on the Ooni Koda 16 with varying success and failure. I am a bit rusty cooking with the propane oven, but it's good...
This week's homemade pizza night: same-day sourdough tavern style, thin crust. Smoked chicken thighs, bacon, and thinly sliced red onion on one. Pepperoni and diced cowboy candy (pickled, candied...
Two sourdough New York style pizzas for dinner. I'd planned to cook them on my Ooni Koda 16 on "secret low" but realized too late we were out of propane. Had to use the home oven and pizza stone...