[Sca-cooks] pizza dough/alton brown conundrum? (OT)
Adele de Maisieres
ladyadele at paradise.net.nz
Tue May 16 20:56:22 PDT 2006
Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise wrote:
> Ok, so it's OT. We're watching the Alton Brown show on pizza, and he
> says that you should knead the dough for 15?! minutes with a stand
> mixer, twice that if you are kneading by hand. I'm no master baker, but
> I've made my share of bread and my family made pizza for years nearly
> every Saturday night, and I've NEVER kneaded dough for half an hour.
> What gives? Is the great scientist Alton in error?
>
No idea... I knead most bread and pizza doughs ~300 strokes by hand or
until the texture is right, whichever comes first. I am a fairly
efficient kneader and it probably takes me less than 10 minutes.
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Adele de Maisieres
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