[Sca-cooks] pizza dough/alton brown conundrum? (OT)

[Susan Fox]

On 5/16/06 8:35 PM, "Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise"
<jenne at fiedlerfamily.net> 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?

It's not so much the time as the number of strokes.  I don't know about you,
but the machine works faster than my little hands.

Selene