Pizza brain

[Randy]

Making Steve and DKM's pizzza brain for Thursday.

What's everyone else making this week?

Randy

[Steve]

I'll be making the same soon. My wife's grandmother is visiting from Wisconsin and she loves cracker crust!

[Foccaciaman]

Pizza brain?

[Randy]

Steve came up with the name.
http://www.pizzamaking.com/yabbse/index.php?board=5;action=display;threadid=105

By the way Steve, DKM do you use a dough hook or mixer blade?

Randy

[Foccaciaman]

Thanks, I remember the reading that post now.

Another question about the recipe though:

That dough ball looks pretty darn big to make one very thin 16" pizza that is in the pictures. Is it really all used for 1 or is it a couple pizzas worth of dough?

Either way I'm gonna make it tommorow now.

[Randy]

Steve says to roll the dough out to a 24" diameter to get the right thickness, so for a 16" pan quite a bit is left over.

Randy

[Steve]

I used the dough hook. But, I use my food processor now... it's much faster!

[Randy]

Thanks Steve, In DKM's instruction he uses the word mix not knead, that is what got me thinking.  I went to 3/4 cup water this time plus 2 tabspoons to see how that works.

Randy

[DKM]

I have also switch to the food processor.

DKM

[Pizzaholic]

Just got a refill of KASL flour, and the sourdough starter is ready. Guess that is what I will be doing, should the work schedule allow.
I remember seeing the pix of the pizzabrain. I am sure that Randy will share with us how that goes.
I have used the food processor to mix a few doughs, I prefer to use the Kitchen Aid  and then manually.
Be sure to encorporate the ingredients with the processor, then let it rest for a bit, then continue the mix.
Gonna do a pesto from the garden with the sourdough.
Pizzaholic

[Randy]

Tried a provolone and mozzarella cheese mix.  Very tasty.
Randy

[Foccaciaman]

Ahhh that explains where the extra dough goes.

But now the food processor, how long a mix and does it end up looking any different than the original brain pics?

Just want to know the look I am trying to achieve.

Oh yeah, nice looking pizza Randy.  

[Pizzaholic]

My plans have been nixed.
The sourdough pizza recipe that I was going to do takes about 5 hours from the time the starter is taken from the fridge. Bummer(american pie Reinhart)
Soooo
I guess its americana style again, I like the dough, a little sweet, but the pesto and grilled chicken should blend well with it. Hmmm maybe shrimp too.
Randy that is a nice looking pie.
Guess I will really have to plan ahead to do the sourdough.
Pizzaholic

[Steve]

Tried a provolone and mozzarella cheese mix.  Very tasty.
Randy

Fine looking pizza, Randy!  

[DKM]

Looks better then my last attempt at the brain.

Good job, Sir.

DKM