Pizza Dough

Simple pizza dough. Great for pizza or calzones. Makes enough for a family of 5.

Ingredients

• 5 cups of bread flour, mix of all-purpose and bread, or just all-purpose flour.
• 0.65 the weight of the flour of warm water.
• 1 Tbsp white sugar.
• 1 Tbsp oil (olive, canola, vegetable).
• Salt.
• 1 package of fast rising yeast.
• Corn meal or flour for pressing out the dough.

Directions

• Put a largish bowl on your kitchen scale, turn the scale to grams (g) and zero / tare it so the scale reads zero.
• Measure 5 cups of bread flour into the bowl. Note the weight!
• Whatever the weight in grams of flour, multiply by 0.65 to get the amount of water you want.
  • For example, your flour weight was 600 grams, then you want \(600g \times 0.65 = 390g\) of warm (100 - 110F) water.
• Get another bowl, zero / tare your scale.
• Add the required amount of warm (100 - 110F) water.
• Dump water into mixing bowl.
• Add 1 Tbsp white sugar, and 1 package of fast rising yeast.
• Mix together.
• Let sit for 5 minutes.
• Add 1 Tbsp oil, a little salt, and previously measured bread flour.
• Using paddle, mix until flour and water are just combined.
• Let sit for 5 minutes.
• Switch to dough hook, scrape any dough off the paddle, and knead for 5 minutes on low.
• The dough should not be sticking to the sides at all when it’s done kneading.
• Scrape any remaining dough off the sides of the bowl, lightly grease the mixing bowl, coat the dough slightly, and cover to rise for at least 90 minutes.
• On a clean surface, put out flour or corn meal.
• Press out your dough to desired shape, either with hands or rolling pin. It will be tough to work (at least in my experience).
• Add pizza toppings.
• Bake at 425F for 12 minutes.