Converting Pizza Book recipes from home oven to pizza oven

Started by Danceswithfood, February 24, 2023, 04:51:43 PM

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Danceswithfood

One thing I see a huge need for in the market place is pizza oven book made for the pizza oven! Increasingly a larger % of those buying these books are using them in pizza ovens rather than the conventional kitchen oven.

What adjustments do y'all make to your pizza recipes to adjust for a pizza oven that can go between 600 - 900 degrees?

I have Elements of Pizza, Mastering Pizza, Pizza Bible, and each are made for the home oven....

THANKS!

TXCraig1

There is no simple answer to that question. You might not need to make any changes. Things you might change as you go hotter: less/no sugar, less/no oil, malted-->unmalted flour, less/no LDMP, etc. The changes probably won't be the same for everyone even with the same oven. The changes probably won't be the same for different ovens even at the same temp. And, the changes probably won't be the same for different temps.

Really, you need to make dough, test, tweak, make more dough, test, and repeat as necessary until you get the pizza you want. Getting to great pizza is an iterative and personal process.
"We make great pizza, with sourdough when we can, baker's yeast when we must, but always great pizza."  
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Pizza_Not_War

Lower hydration is the big one for me. All the other ones from TxC as well. Only once I get the pizza I want I'm usually bored by it and start all over again trying to get a new pizza I want. This has been going on for a long time. :-D

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