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

[Adele de Maisieres]

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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