
Learn a simple, close to perfect pizza dough recipe suitable for commercial kitchens or home, and master how to stretch and cook it for consistent results.
From a high gluten flour mix (25–27%), combine water at 40 celsius, dry yeast, sugar, salt, and sunflower oil to form elastic dough; rest 20 minutes, refrigerate 24 hours.
Learn to weigh ingredients on scales in grams for precise pizza dough, then add dry yeast first, then sugar, water, and flour all at once, and mix on slow speed.
Learn pizza dough mixing: add salt and oil only after all flour is absorbed, continue mixing until dough forms a cohesive ball, then cover with plastic and rest 20 minutes.
Stretch dough using corn flour for better color, crust, and hand health, shape a round pizza, add sauce in the center to the border, then top with cheese.
Learn how to handle four-day-old pizza dough, shape a perfect round, cut and form bubbles, cover to prevent drying, and prepare for resting and boxing.
Weigh and cut the dough into two portions of 250 g and 550 g, noting it is very soft, then rest in a closed box for five minutes.
Demonstrates detaching, folding toward yourself, and squeezing dough on both sides to shape pizza dough, then compares just-made with four-day fermented dough and notes fridge storage at 3–4 °C.
Learn to stretch dough into a round pizza base using flour dusting, center press, and coordinated right and left hand motions, leaving a border and using a screen for transfer.
Learn to make margherita pizzas by applying tomato sauce from center to edge on a 14-hour dough, stretch on a metal screen, fix as needed, and bake.
This course begins with me introducing my self. I am thirty one years old man Povilas Vadeika from Lithuania, Europe. I have ten years of experience as pizza chef and eight years of experience as pizza chefs teacher. Also I am pizzeria chain (MIAMI Pizza) owner for eight years.
In first episode i explain what flour with what glutent percentaged and number of ashes we will use. Later i describe how to properly read pizza dough recipe and in which order and at what time to add will add all ingridients. I explain how good pizza dough should look like and what mistakes to avoid.
I start pizza dough mixing process and during it add rest of the ingridients.
After mixing pizza dough i transfer it to table and cover it in plastic wrap. I let it stay on the table and relax for twenty minutes. Later I cut it in peaces by weight and form beautifull pizza dough balls. Which I place in special pizza dough boxes. Then I transfer these boxes to the frigde and let them ferment and rise in the fridge over night.
Next day I strech fermented dough balls to pizza baces on which I add tomato sauce, cheese and then cook in electric oven heated to 415C temperature until pizza is nice and brown on the sides and bottom.