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[Villa Roma]

Two of my latest. I used frozen apple juice concentrate as a sweetener.

   Villa Roma

[MTPIZZA]

Villa Roma, do you do mail order?? lol... GREAT SHOTS!... Its like watching Picasso at work!

[Villa Roma]

Ha, Ha, sorry MT no mail order at this time but thanks for the comps. Here's some from tonights batch for you to virtually chomp on. I went back to basics, no sourdough.

    Villa Roma

[EAP0510]

I've been reading this topic for awhile so I finally made the plunge and attempted a WW pie.

I did not have GM WW flour instead I use Pillsbury WW flour. So I had to make some adjustments in the amount of water that I used.

Like everyone else that has attempted this recipe I had to add a ton of bench flour when I was trying to pat out the dough to make my 14" pie. I cooked the pie at 550 for about 10 minutes or so I really didn't keep up with the time very closely.

The crust had a good flavor to it but it was extremely heavy. I ate 2 pieces and it felt like a lead brick was in my stomach.  I did not get the light airy look of the pics that are posted in this string.

What did I do wrong? One thing I believe that I did wrong was I used to much dough to make my pizza. I was able to make one 14" and one 9" pizza from this recipe. How many pizzas is everyone else been able to make from this recipe?

[Villa Roma]

EAP0510 ......Perhaps you could post the recipe you used. I make 8 ten inch pizzas from my recipe so something isn't right. The last batch posted above was actually 87.5% whole grain. I used 100 grams of GM bread flour. Next time I'll try 100% whole grain again. Here's the ingredient list for the batch shown above:

700 gm GM WW flour
100 gm GM bread flour
700 gm water (87.5%)
20 gm salt (2.5%)
16 gm lite olive oil (2%)
1/4 tsp dry instant yeast

    Villa Roma

[EAP0510]

8!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dang no wonder why mine felt like a brick after I ate it

You must eat pizza for days one end making 8 at a pop.

I followed your recipe that you had posted when you first broke the whole wheat barrier.

Once I combined the milk and water into my flour the liquids disappeared on me. I could literally blow the flour out of my bowl after mixing for several minutes. It was that I began to add more water by the tablespoon until I reach a similar consistence of what I saw in your video.

Looks like my biggest mistake was:
1. Not having a set of digital scales
2. Not realizing that the recipe makes 8 ten inch pies

I'll try again once I finish eating my tasty bricks.

[Villa Roma]

Here is a good quality inexpensive scale for about $25:
http://www.amazon.com/Escali-Primo-Digital-Multifunctional-Chrome/dp/B0007GAWRS/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden&qid=1235873085&sr=1-5

Makes a nice stocking stuffer.

    Villa Roma

[corkd]

Villa Roma, thanks for this thread-- trying this has been a blast... After many hours spent reading
& experimenting with caputo, KASL, preferments, & even modifying an oven to bake on the clean cycle, working with WWF is a refreshing change. 
The pics are only my 2nd attempt with your technique.. for the first try, I used 100% hydration & found I had to add flour 2/3 of the way through the 24 hr ferment to make the dough workable. the pies were fine, but this attempt was MUCH better.
I adhered to your 3 points:
high hydration; long ferment; high temp oven

What's great about this method is that it's essentially a version of the no-knead bread recipe, which I use often for bread baking.
 Here's what i did to get 2 dough balls:
KA wwf 300gr
H2O 256 gr
sugar 6gr
salt  6gr
EVOO 6gr
pinch of IDY (no measurement)
pinch of vitamin C (i opened a packet of emergen C)

I followed your method of "dump and stir", then gave a the dough a stir every few hours. This hydration (just over 85%) proved to
be perfect for being able to handle the dough from the start. I was able to pick the dough up & knead it a bit without alot of stickiness, & without adding more flour.
At 12 hrs room temp the dough had almost doubled in volume.
I punched down gently, divided into 2 balls, & put in sep containers.
By around 22 hrs, the dough had again almost doubled  in volume- I probably could have used even less yeast...
I used a small amount of regular flour on the bench, on the peel & stretched by hand. I was impressed by  the extensibility-- no tears, &
stretched to around 12" with no problem. I was able to dress the pies without rushing, & had no sticking issues.

I baked in a bare-bones RCA gas unit that we have in the basement-- with the fibrament stone on the oven floor & heat turned to broil I get over 650.... then used the broiler to finish the top.
 the total bake time was less than 5 mins.
The result was a crust that was very puffy and remarkably light. very cool!

the thing about WWF is of course the intense flavor-- but i think it will be much like getting used to whole wheat pasta when you first switch from regular... it just takes some time. I think with WWF you need to adjust the toppings to get more assertive flavors. For cheese I  used Feta, &  a blend of Sargento that has some asiago- plus some sausage & a black garlic that has an intense, smoky flavor, all of which stood up well to the intense flavor of the WWF.

clay

[Villa Roma]

Clay.....Congratulations, your pizza looks terrific. I found that the KA WW flour was very fine so I would use 50% GM WW flour to make the perfect WW crust. The GM flour is a medium grind and it's about half the cost of the KA. I'm out of the KA WW so now I just use straight GM WW.

Although I experimented briefly with the dump and stir (no knead) method to show that a mixer isn't needed to produce great WW pizza, I normally use a Kitchen Aid mixer with a spiral hook. I mix the dough up the day before and refer it for 24 hours. I cook the pizzas at about 650 degrees in my mini LBE for about just under 4 minutes.   

     Villa Roma

[Villa Roma]

Here are two pizzas I made today. They are 100% whole grain and 90% hydration.

    Villa Roma

[Derzerb]

Will the Lehman Dough Calculator still work with 100% whole wheat?
Sorry if the question is a bit amateurish.By the way, Villaroma, awesome job trying to make the best food in the world into a healthy one also! 

[Pete-zza]

Will the Lehman Dough Calculator still work with 100% whole wheat?

Derzerb,

Yes. All of the dough calculating tools, including the Lehmann tool, are agnostic as to the type of flour. The tools are based on percents and any flour will work in the tools. I usually modify the output text to show the type of flour used but that is only for the sake of completeness.

Peter

[DOC Opa]

I've seen several recipes here as you have been experimenting with no knead, KA spiral hook, sourdough, vitamin C, etc.  Do you now have a standard WW pizza dough for high temperature wood ovens that has evolved that you could post? 

Mark

[Villa Roma]

I've seen several recipes here as you have been experimenting with no knead, KA spiral hook, sourdough, vitamin C, etc.  Do you now have a standard WW pizza dough for high temperature wood ovens that has evolved that you could post? 

Mark

What's up DOC? I don't have a really standard recipe as I like to experiment with different ingredients and I don't know if WW would do well in a WFO. If I had to pick a recipe I'd go with this one:

800gm GM WW flour
720 gm water (90%)
20 gm salt (2.5%)
16 gm lite olive oil (2%)
1/4 tsp dry instant yeast

Case in point, I used sweet potato and cider vinegar in this batch. It came out a little heavy but it was real easy to stretch.

    How sweet it is! Villa Roma

[DOC Opa]

I fired up the WFO a couple times before roof construction over the oven stopped me from firring it up until that was completed.  I used your earlier WW recipe and it cooked up great in the WFO.  The WW dough is delicate, you can't just pull it onto the peel like regular pizza dough at least that was the case for me the two times I made it.  They only took about 90 to 120 seconds to cook.  I've read that high temp cooking dough should not have oil or sugar in it as it tends to burn but you have oil in the dough and your pizzas look great.  I take it you do not find the addition of oil to be a problem at high temps.  The floor temperature, if interested, was 750° and 775° F with the ceiling covered with flames so the gun limit is only 1000° F.  I need to finish insulating the oven and make it look nice.  I plan on playing with the WW dough recipe you gave me and also try 100% spelt.  Thanks again,

DOC (Dutch Oven Cooking) Opa (Grandfather)