I’ve been making sourdough bread for the past 2 years and got very good at it. About 9 months ago, I started working out a sourdough pizza dough recipe and began learning how to make my own homemade pizzas.
After much trial and error, and a lot of experimentation, my pizzas started getting much better. Here’s my latest.
Details: 100% sourdough pizza dough - 70% hydration. Custom cheese blend: 60% mozzarella, 15% cheddar, 15% sharp provolone, 10% parmesan. Sauce base: made from scratch using canned whole san marzano tomatoes & some seasonings/spices. Toppings: mushroom, green bell pepper, red onion, and hard salami.
The most awesome part is that we no longer order pizza delivery - my pizzas are coming out better than anything we used to get delivered (and it saves a ton of money)!
Read the title, looked at the thumbnail and was impressed by the graphics of your pizza game! Opening the post I thought it was too realistic… and then saw your added details. Pizza game Hahahha!
It looks great! What’s your pizza oven set up like? I have a stone I use in my grill. It’s no pizza oven but it does a pretty good job.
Oh yeah, maybe I should start working on an actual ‘pizza game’ also, lol.
Setup is just a regular electric kitchen oven, capable of getting up to 550f (287c) - and that’s the temp I cook pizza at. I have a very thick stone I bake on - about middle of the oven. I let it get preheated for at least 30 min so that it’s super hot when the pizza goes in. As much as I’d love a dedicated pizza oven, I just don’t have the room or the money for it, and I’m getting pretty great results without it, so this is my setup for now.
That’s an impressive result in a standard oven.