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Pizza Making Videos & Images

If you've been reading the book, Free The Pizza, you've read about these videos and images. Welcome. In your journey to making great pizza whenever you want in the oven you already have, these little videos and step-by-step photo sequences should help you with some of the simplest things in pizza making that folks find the most daunting. Enjoy!

VIDEOS
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Making a dough ball

This is one of the most puzzling tasks for the newbie. We've slowed this one down to help you get a better look at how it works. 



Shaping a pizza

Another one of the puzzling tasks for the pizza novice: how to stretch the dough and make the pizza round. A lot of people don't care about the round part. I admit, I do. It divides more easily and equitably among your diners, it looks good, and it feels like even more of an accomplishment.  And know this: you will probably have a challenge getting them completely round. Don't worry about it. You'll make it round enough until you make it rounder. 

Note the dimpling inside the circumference of the video. I've seen some pros do this. While I don't always do it, it can be a useful practice at the beginning. I like doing it because it gives what will be the cornicone, or the puffy outer edge of the crust, a defined area. I find that often, my pizzas are more tidy when I do this. 

IMAGES

​Folding your dough

In the section on making your dough, we talk about folding over your dough every 20 minutes. Here's an example of that sequence. Folding the dough like this helps strengthen the gluten. It's also pretty simple. 
Flatten dough ball north and south
Flatten dough ball north and south...
Flatten dough ball east and west
..east and west.
Fold down the top
Fold down the top
Fold up the bottom
Fold up the bottom
Fold over left and right
Fold over left and right
Gather together the
Gather together the "corners"
Your dough is ready to rest again
Your dough is ready to rest again



Making dough balls

These are still images from the video above. Forming a dough ball seems to be one of the most elusive aspects of pizza dough, so we figure we couldn't show you too much of this... 
Flatten the piece of dough
Flatten the piece of dough
Fold dough over on itself
Fold dough over on itself
Rotate dough 90 degrees
Rotate dough 90 degrees
Flatten and fold over on itself again
Flatten and fold over on itself again
Gather corners and shape into a ball
Gather corners and shape into a ball
Pinch bottom shut, twist, pinch again
Pinch bottom shut, twist, pinch again
It's a dough ball!
It's a dough ball!



​Shaping a pizza

As with the dough ball video, these are still images from the video above for shaping a pizza. 
Flattening dough ball
Flattening dough ball
Dimpling the edge
Dimpling the edge
Stretching with knuckles
Stretching with knuckles
Stretching the edge
Stretching the edge
Flattening and rounding
Flattening and rounding
Spreading the sauce
Spreading the sauce
Spreading the mozzarella
Spreading the mozzarella
Sprinkling the parmesan
Sprinkling the parmesan
Ready to bake
Ready to bake
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