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No pictures - I made three pizzas for my family while visiting Florida. Brought down some Cudighi and picked up pepperoni down there.

I was down there for my mom's 100 birthday and made pizza for her after two days of other celebrations. My mom loves pizza and I learned so much off my appreciation from her.

Great trip, but glad to be home.
 
I had a bunch of tomatoes from the garden, I was thinking of making spaghetti sauce, but I decided to make pizza sauce. I now have 32 half pint jars of pizza sauce. I see lots of pizzas in my future.
Pizza sauce is dual purpose, makes good spaghetti sauce too!

Have a supply on hand has a sense if security.
 
Pan pizza,

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I got a Chefman Home Slice electric pizza oven for Christmas! WOOWOO!
It does 800F, with independent top and bottom temp settings (can't be more than 200f apart) So far we made two respectable Napoli-style pies, and a few pan-baked Chicago thin-crust style pizzas, still working out the kinks :)
This thing gets excellent press over at Pizzamaking.com, and those guys are hard to please.

You can get it on Aliexpress for $246. Assuming it really is a Chefman.
 
This thing gets excellent press over at Pizzamaking.com, and those guys are hard to please.

You can get it on Aliexpress for $246. Assuming it really is a Chefman.
Hey, I'm on pizzamaking.com, I made sure to research it there before making the purchase. I'm in the process of testing out different pans in it for firing Chicago thin crust pizzas; aluminum isn't giving me the texture I'm looking for, and I cant find bare carbon steel pizza pans, so I'm going to buy a 12" paella pan and remove the handles 😀
 
I feel a little dirty, but I have been thinking about getting a pan for Detroit or Chicago style pizza (I don't see the big difference).

I think such a pizza would work well for days when I'm making pizza on short notice. The doughs I have been making all call for a 12+ hour preferment, and then another night in the fridge after the dough is assembled. I really enjoy that long fermented dough/crust, but some days I just find myself wanting a pizza without having already started pizza dough a day or two earlier.
 
I get great results with Sicilian in aluminum quarter-sheets, but I have a cheat in case I screw it up, because sometimes I underestimate the amount of time a pizza needs.

I put a stone in the oven, and when I take the pie out, I set it on the stone for about 90 seconds. I bought the expensive steel wire-framed pans, and they made very poor Sicilian. I don't use a steel for this. Fat from thick pizzas has a way of running off steels and creating a lot of smoke.

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Hey Kent, I found an interesting way to get flavorful dough in one day. I take out 1/2 of the yeast and add 5 oz of plain greek yogurt to the poolish. Let that ferment till double in size,it will puff up. Make the dough for the batch ferment,when double in size make individual balls and ferment in cool place till ready for the pan. It's kinda like Naan,very bubbly with a slight tang.
 
Trying to improve my Neapolitan-style pizzas. A few years on the road, already... but not there yet.
 

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Is there not a vote yet for which oven folks are using! I'm getting one soon, but need options on Ooni and Gozney to be put together and made into a hybrid. Ooney or Gozni. 🤷‍♂️
 
Talking about ovens, I really love my Ooni koda 12. Bake great pizzas and is very efficient, reaching high temperatures really quick. However, it is too small, making too difficult deal with any dough larger than 30cm (~11 inches) and limiting oven throughput. Ooni Koda 16 would be much better, but it is too expensive for me.

If I have to bake pizzas for more than 5/6 people, I go the traditional way with his bigger brother (see pics).
 

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