Bacon, Pineapple, hot pepper, fresh mozzarella pizza made using Pan De Cristal dough
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Approvato
Grazie

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The fuckin pan was heavy, I almost dropped it, my life flashed before my eyes
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My sonās pizza just had bacon and regular shredded mozzarella.

So Iāve been making Pan de Cristal King Arthur Recipe a lot lately. Itās so easy, and I tried to use it for pizza dough yesterday. It could have been divided better, my sonās pizza photo doesnāt do it justice, that shit tured into a crater as it cooled, and it looked amazing.
Did it cook all the way through⦠this was my main concern. The bread takes an hour to cook, and pizza usually only 20 mins, so, not at first, I had to cover the top so it wouldnāt burn while I cooked it an additional 15 minutes, and then even heated them slightly on the stovetop so the bottom could finish em because I was concerned about it. Definitely had a learning curve here. But they tasted phenomenal. Iāve still got tomatoes giving from my plants, and made a quick sauce. Added dehydrated chopped garlic to the bread dough.
Happy family!
Looks great, and not to be a Negative Nelly, but you might want to check two things, in futureā
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- is parchment paper safe to use in 475°F baking environments? (because it looks like it might release siloxanes at such temps)
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- some parchment papers seem to contain PFASās, forever chemicals, so worth a little research
If it helps, I understand that pre-heated pizza steels are incredibly good at helping to simulate the heat delivery of brick oven pizza (which reduces baking time). Both the steel and āpizza peelsā (like a huge spatula) can be had combined for⦠I think around US$60 or so, new. A bit of corn or wheat flour can be used to help prevent things sticking.
(I have a peel, but only a couple pizza stones right now. Looking to upgrade in futureā¦)
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Looks great, and not to be a Negative Nelly, but you might want to check two things, in futureā
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- is parchment paper safe to use in 475°F baking environments? (because it looks like it might release siloxanes at such temps)
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- some parchment papers seem to contain PFASās, forever chemicals, so worth a little research
If it helps, I understand that pre-heated pizza steels are incredibly good at helping to simulate the heat delivery of brick oven pizza (which reduces baking time). Both the steel and āpizza peelsā (like a huge spatula) can be had combined for⦠I think around US$60 or so, new. A bit of corn or wheat flour can be used to help prevent things sticking.
(I have a peel, but only a couple pizza stones right now. Looking to upgrade in futureā¦)
I definitely know all of this. Why I clipped the edges of the parchment after the transfer and before the cook.
I preheat my cast irons at 450°F for an hour, there is cornmeal under the dough on the parchment. A pizza stone is cool, but I donāt have one and love my cast iron babies.
With normal pizza dough, the process is different than what I did here. I donāt use parchment with standard pizza dough. This is a 100% hydration dough, and took a 1.5 hour rise after shaping it. Itās not as sturdy as pizza dough, and transferring it would have been very difficult without the aide of the parchment. There was no burning on the parchment, no sticking except for one small corner that slid into the dough on the smaller pizza, I managed to get it out though. Came clean out the pans.
I use unbleached parchment, I donāt know if it contains pfas or not, but I appreciate you being concerned for food safety. You could also let me know my gas stove is going to give me cancer. You gotta pick your battles sometimes
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My sonās pizza just had bacon and regular shredded mozzarella.

So Iāve been making Pan de Cristal King Arthur Recipe a lot lately. Itās so easy, and I tried to use it for pizza dough yesterday. It could have been divided better, my sonās pizza photo doesnāt do it justice, that shit tured into a crater as it cooled, and it looked amazing.
Did it cook all the way through⦠this was my main concern. The bread takes an hour to cook, and pizza usually only 20 mins, so, not at first, I had to cover the top so it wouldnāt burn while I cooked it an additional 15 minutes, and then even heated them slightly on the stovetop so the bottom could finish em because I was concerned about it. Definitely had a learning curve here. But they tasted phenomenal. Iāve still got tomatoes giving from my plants, and made a quick sauce. Added dehydrated chopped garlic to the bread dough.
Happy family!
Ashamed to admit only recently discovered this topping combination, and it is the fucking best. I want some!
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Ashamed to admit only recently discovered this topping combination, and it is the fucking best. I want some!
Itās go goooood
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I definitely know all of this. Why I clipped the edges of the parchment after the transfer and before the cook.
I preheat my cast irons at 450°F for an hour, there is cornmeal under the dough on the parchment. A pizza stone is cool, but I donāt have one and love my cast iron babies.
With normal pizza dough, the process is different than what I did here. I donāt use parchment with standard pizza dough. This is a 100% hydration dough, and took a 1.5 hour rise after shaping it. Itās not as sturdy as pizza dough, and transferring it would have been very difficult without the aide of the parchment. There was no burning on the parchment, no sticking except for one small corner that slid into the dough on the smaller pizza, I managed to get it out though. Came clean out the pans.
I use unbleached parchment, I donāt know if it contains pfas or not, but I appreciate you being concerned for food safety. You could also let me know my gas stove is going to give me cancer. You gotta pick your battles sometimes
Good to hear!
Most cooks seem to use PP in the direct cooking, hence my concerns above. Not unlike sous vide cooking, which seems like a great idea taste-wise, but a pretty sketchy one health-wise, in which the food will commonly absorb compounds leeched out of the plastic.Btw, I suspect those cast-iron pans (being metal) are in fact much more efficient than pizza stones, being⦠stone, eheh. They can store more heat and transfer it more efficiently as I understand it.
Buen provecho.

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My sonās pizza just had bacon and regular shredded mozzarella.

So Iāve been making Pan de Cristal King Arthur Recipe a lot lately. Itās so easy, and I tried to use it for pizza dough yesterday. It could have been divided better, my sonās pizza photo doesnāt do it justice, that shit tured into a crater as it cooled, and it looked amazing.
Did it cook all the way through⦠this was my main concern. The bread takes an hour to cook, and pizza usually only 20 mins, so, not at first, I had to cover the top so it wouldnāt burn while I cooked it an additional 15 minutes, and then even heated them slightly on the stovetop so the bottom could finish em because I was concerned about it. Definitely had a learning curve here. But they tasted phenomenal. Iāve still got tomatoes giving from my plants, and made a quick sauce. Added dehydrated chopped garlic to the bread dough.
Happy family!
Now, thatās a fucking pizza.
excited Italian hand gestures
See, pineapple absolutely can work on pizza, you just have to know what youāre doing, and have at least some sense of how to construct a total flavor profile.
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Ashamed to admit only recently discovered this topping combination, and it is the fucking best. I want some!
I remember when you could first buy pickled banana pepper rings around here, I think my parents brought them home and the first thing I did was put them on a pizza. Iāve been doing pizzas that way for 40 years now, canāt imagine not having them.
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My sonās pizza just had bacon and regular shredded mozzarella.

So Iāve been making Pan de Cristal King Arthur Recipe a lot lately. Itās so easy, and I tried to use it for pizza dough yesterday. It could have been divided better, my sonās pizza photo doesnāt do it justice, that shit tured into a crater as it cooled, and it looked amazing.
Did it cook all the way through⦠this was my main concern. The bread takes an hour to cook, and pizza usually only 20 mins, so, not at first, I had to cover the top so it wouldnāt burn while I cooked it an additional 15 minutes, and then even heated them slightly on the stovetop so the bottom could finish em because I was concerned about it. Definitely had a learning curve here. But they tasted phenomenal. Iāve still got tomatoes giving from my plants, and made a quick sauce. Added dehydrated chopped garlic to the bread dough.
Happy family!
Congratulations on your masterpiece! Hopefully, the beginning of plenty. Thanks for the topping ideas!
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My sonās pizza just had bacon and regular shredded mozzarella.

So Iāve been making Pan de Cristal King Arthur Recipe a lot lately. Itās so easy, and I tried to use it for pizza dough yesterday. It could have been divided better, my sonās pizza photo doesnāt do it justice, that shit tured into a crater as it cooled, and it looked amazing.
Did it cook all the way through⦠this was my main concern. The bread takes an hour to cook, and pizza usually only 20 mins, so, not at first, I had to cover the top so it wouldnāt burn while I cooked it an additional 15 minutes, and then even heated them slightly on the stovetop so the bottom could finish em because I was concerned about it. Definitely had a learning curve here. But they tasted phenomenal. Iāve still got tomatoes giving from my plants, and made a quick sauce. Added dehydrated chopped garlic to the bread dough.
Happy family!
I am not a fan of pineapple pizza but this one looks awesome.
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I am not a fan of pineapple pizza but this one looks awesome.
Thank you

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Congratulations on your masterpiece! Hopefully, the beginning of plenty. Thanks for the topping ideas!
Yeah, I like this dough/bread for its texture, and the fact I donāt have to kneed it at all. You just slowly turn a bowl of dough soup into a beautiful jiggly dough ball with not much work at all, only time. Donāt ask me to dust flour on my work surface, I donāt want to clean the crannies on the cabinet doors from flour, itās always manages to get everywhere, lol no
Anyway, the recipe gives directions on how to turn it into a focaccia. I just took it a step further. 100 percent, will do again.
On do over, I would still preheat the oven/pan to 450°F, but will drop it to 375° as soon as I put the pizza in, see how that goes.
Always recommend pineapple with hot peppers. These are just jared pickeled peppers. Drain them both well before using. Add bacon for pleasure. I donāt eat pork nearly at all. Except when Kayem double smoked bacon is on sale, fuck me itās good.
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Now, thatās a fucking pizza.
excited Italian hand gestures
See, pineapple absolutely can work on pizza, you just have to know what youāre doing, and have at least some sense of how to construct a total flavor profile.
Iām assume the downvotes are pineapple haters. Iām okay with being controversial. Sweet and spicy, gotta have both!
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Good to hear!
Most cooks seem to use PP in the direct cooking, hence my concerns above. Not unlike sous vide cooking, which seems like a great idea taste-wise, but a pretty sketchy one health-wise, in which the food will commonly absorb compounds leeched out of the plastic.Btw, I suspect those cast-iron pans (being metal) are in fact much more efficient than pizza stones, being⦠stone, eheh. They can store more heat and transfer it more efficiently as I understand it.
Buen provecho.

Naw I hear you with the plastics. Iām glad to know someone else cares about it.
Iāve spent the last idk, ten years or so removing plastic usage (any single use stuff) from my kitchen as much as possible. We poā folk, yet we use fancy cloth napkins even. Iām making pulled bbq chicken today in the crockpot, I actually thought of your comment, āwhat if my crockpot has pfas or some shit leeching? It probably does!ā
Lol so thank you for trying to inform.
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Iām assume the downvotes are pineapple haters. Iām okay with being controversial. Sweet and spicy, gotta have both!
I generally recommend this fairly simple ātrickā to make almost any basic / more conventional topping mix into a better pizza.
3 cheese blend.
Never go full mozzarella.
Ever.
Unless your toppings are doing basically all the work of making a unique flavor profile.
Pick two more cheeses, fuck around untill you find a mixture and proportions that make a flavor thatās incredible with your simpler toppings.
Asiago, ricotta, parmesean, even smokey gouda or creamy brie can work.
⦠just not cheddar.
Something is fucking wrong with you if you think cheddar works on a pizza, youāre thinking of a hamburger and/or you are already too drunk to cook a pizza lol, you will pass out and wake up to a fire alarm going off and a smoldering cinder in your oven.
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Naw I hear you with the plastics. Iām glad to know someone else cares about it.
Iāve spent the last idk, ten years or so removing plastic usage (any single use stuff) from my kitchen as much as possible. We poā folk, yet we use fancy cloth napkins even. Iām making pulled bbq chicken today in the crockpot, I actually thought of your comment, āwhat if my crockpot has pfas or some shit leeching? It probably does!ā
Lol so thank you for trying to inform.
From what Iām seeing, modern crockpots are completely safe to use (and awesome devices, like my beloved air-fryer!) when following guidelines upon their use, but there MAY be an issue with older ones from some decades back, which evidently used ceramic glazes containing lead.
I reckon a quick bit of research on whatever model you have should quickly clear that upā¦
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I generally recommend this fairly simple ātrickā to make almost any basic / more conventional topping mix into a better pizza.
3 cheese blend.
Never go full mozzarella.
Ever.
Unless your toppings are doing basically all the work of making a unique flavor profile.
Pick two more cheeses, fuck around untill you find a mixture and proportions that make a flavor thatās incredible with your simpler toppings.
Asiago, ricotta, parmesean, even smokey gouda or creamy brie can work.
⦠just not cheddar.
Something is fucking wrong with you if you think cheddar works on a pizza, youāre thinking of a hamburger and/or you are already too drunk to cook a pizza lol, you will pass out and wake up to a fire alarm going off and a smoldering cinder in your oven.
I can make cheddar bread work. Stuff them little dough balls and turn em into pretzels. Shred New York Sharp, add a spicy pepper mash, dear god youāll get fat.
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I can make cheddar bread work. Stuff them little dough balls and turn em into pretzels. Shred New York Sharp, add a spicy pepper mash, dear god youāll get fat.
Oh I mean yes, it cheddar absolutely can work in varying breads and such of all kinds, fucking love me my piroshkis and all kinds of savory other ways you can combine bread and cheddar⦠but cheddar on pizza?
No no no no no, I am apparently religious, and that is heresy, lol.
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I am not a fan of pineapple pizza but this one looks awesome.
Pineapple, Pork and Jalapeno is one of those combinations that just works SO well.