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Knead to Know: Auto Pilot
How the autolyse method can improve your dough In today’s hyper competitive market consumers are much more knowledgeable and demanding. This has been great for our industry because it has caused us to look outside of our own insular world for metho...
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Knead to Know: Elevate Flavor
The Dough Doctor offers tips on improving your crust without breaking the bank Q: We just make a few pizzas a day for use at our bar. We use a frozen dough to make the crust and we find that the pizzas are just so-so, what can we do to make our pizza...
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Commentary: Servers Beware
If you offer dine-in, you already know that the servers you employ are brand ambassadors that completely make or break the experience your customers have within your four walls. No matter how great the food and ambiance happen to be, a bad experience...
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Knead to Know: Taking the Next Step
Once you understand your core ingredients, you can step into variations Flour, water, salt and yeast are the basic ingredients of pizza dough. Mastery of these fundamental components can produce exemplary results and has served Neapolitan pizza maker...
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Knead to Know: Snapped! Dough Snapback Solved
Common dough problem, pizza dough snapback, has plethora of causes Q: We have a continual problem with dough snap-back after placing it on the screen for baking. Is there anything that we can add to our dough to eliminate this problem? A: Dough snap-...
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Dough Doctor: Back to Basics
Create pan and thin-crust pizza with easy measurements Q: Can you help us develop a dough for a pan-style pizza as well as a thin-crust pizza based on 12.5 kilograms of flour? Additionally, can you show us how to make a pre-mix out of the dough formu...
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Dough Doctor: Half-baked Idea?
The Dough Doctor answers a question about the use of baking powder in pizza dough Q: I’ve heard that baking powder can be used in making pizza crusts. Is this true? A: Baking powder can and has successfully been used in making pizza crusts for many...
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Respecting the Craft: Thin is In
Tony’s tips on making the perfect crispy thin-crust pizza So many students ask me how to make a good, crispy thin-crust pizza. Is it the dough recipe or the technique? It’s a little of both, actually, but definitely more technique. One of my most...
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Dough Doctor: Breaking Down Baker’s Percent
100 Percent Sure Q: I see that most of the dough recipes that you talk about are in percent rather than in weights. How do I go about converting the percentages into ingredient weights? A: I get this question asked quite frequently so it never hurts ...
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Dough Doctor: Dough mixing made easier
The Dough Doctor breaks down dough mixing procedures I’ve noticed that the dough-making procedures used by many operators seem to be getting more and more detailed, long and drawn out. I like to think that we are just making pizza dough, not rocket...
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Dough Doctor: Sticky dough and preventing rust in your mixing bowls
Q: Why is my dough wet and sticky when I remove it from the dough box? A: While some may believe that this is caused by excessive dough absorption, the truth of the matter is that it is caused either by failure to cross-stack the dough boxes during r...
Dough Doctor: Tough Sell — Causes of too tough, chewy crust
Q: What’s causing your crust to be too chewy? A: There are a number of factors that can contribute to a tough and chewy crust characteristic. For example, use of a flour that is overly strong (high in protein content) for the dough management proce...