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(Experiment 74) Neapolitan pizza with Poolish

Ingredients

Poolish

  • 200 gr flour type 00
  • 200 ML water room temperature
  • 4 gr dry yeast

Main

  • 200 ml water room temp
  • 400 g flour type 00
  • 15 g sea salt

Instructions

Poolish

  • Mix all together in a bowl (use a whisk or your hand)
  • Cover with plastic film but make a couple of holes with a knife
  • Put in refrigerator for 24hours max 48hours else it will overproof and become acid.

Main

  • Put the water in a standing mixer bowl, add the poolish
  • With your hands, break the poolish with the water, water will start to get milky
  • Add salt
  • Mix with hand again
  • Put the bowl on the stand mixer
  • Add flour little by little
  • Mix and knead for 8-10 mins, note that it will be very dry at first but after a couple of minutes it will be all absorbed. When done, the dough should be slightly sticky. If too sticky, add flour and mix a few more mins
  • Make balls, ~260gr each
  • Should make 3 and have a little leftover
  • Put the balls in a pan, cover them with olive oil so they don’t stick to the film
  • Cover with film the pan tight, so no air gets in
  • Let sit 2 hours if hot, 3 hour is temperature is cooler
  • Dump ball in flour and put on a floured surface
  • To stretch the dough, first gently start from the center and press it down, from there keep on pressing the dough gently toward the edge( this sends the air towards it) , don’t stretch the pizza yet, Just press it down. Leave an untouched edge.
  • Then with your right hand, keep pressing the right side of the dough
  • With your left hand, stretch the dough
  • Rotate dough, and repeat until you have a ~12? pizza
  • See this video for demonstrations on how to stretch the dough, I use the first technique
  • I like the stretch & pull method
  • **after it’s almost the right size, remove all excess flour from the work surface then continue stretching until you reach the right size. Excessive flour will obviously taste bad once cooked
  • Sample timeline
    13h30/14h30 Prepare and make balls
    13h40(cold)
    14h40(warm) Rest
    16h40 Make pie
    17h00 cook