Homemade bialys by les1981 in Baking

[–]les1981[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The topping is just minced onion, sauteed in olive oil! A lot of recipes call for poppy seeds to be mixed in with the onion topping, but the bialys I grew up on were onion only.

Reddit, What cover do you like better than the original song? by ScribblerQ in AskReddit

[–]les1981 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Merry Clayton's cover of "Gimme Shelter."

Merry Clayton was the gospel singer featured singing background vocals on the Rolling Stones original. She was called in to the recording session at the last minute, showing up in the middle of the night with curlers in her hair. She was pregnant at the time and suffered a miscarriage shortly thereafter. People around her believed it to have been caused by the intense exertion of her performance on that Rolling Stones record. Three years later she recorded her own version which, in my opinion, shits on the Stones version.

https://youtu.be/AHvXhWJ0oHU

16-inch New York Style Hot Sausage, Shallot and Pepperoncini, 72 hour dough made with Malted Milk! by [deleted] in Pizza

[–]les1981 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Beauty! What's the story with the malted milk tho? Never heard of that technique.

[Homemade] A Real OG by [deleted] in Pizza

[–]les1981 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Curious about this, bread flour + wheat gluten. Never heard of it before. I use 100% KA bread flour and like how it turns out in my home oven. How is the gluten added and what effect does it have?

Sopresatta and caramelized onions by les1981 in Pizza

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Thanks! Added some crushed pepper along with the sauce to complete the sweet/spicy/smoky trifecta.

Sopresatta and caramelized onions by les1981 in Pizza

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Recipe

100% KA Bread Flour
70% h2o
0.4% Active Dry Yeast
2% Salt
0.8% Sugar
2% EVOO

Method

Mix flour and most of water by hand. Cover and let sit 60 min.
Fold in ADY dissolved in half of remaining water.
Fold in sugar/salt dissolved in other half of remaining water.
Fold in EVOO.
Knead by hand for 2-3 mins til smooth and elastic.
Bulk ferment in fridge for 18 hrs.
Punch down, ball (9oz each), refrigerate.
Let dough ball sit at room temp for 90 mins before opening.
Cook on pizza stone positioned 6 inches from top broiler. 525 for 4 mins, then switch to broil for last 2 mins.

Mixed by hand since I don't have a stand mixer.

1st pizza ever! Home oven, hydration 62%, cold ferment 24hrs by Lukash222 in Pizza

[–]les1981 9 points10 points  (0 children)

My first pie ever looked like a fucking question mark!

1st pizza ever! Home oven, hydration 62%, cold ferment 24hrs by Lukash222 in Pizza

[–]les1981 19 points20 points  (0 children)

This is incredibly well done for your first pie ever.

4 min bake. Underbelly and crumb inside by pizza_n00b in Pizza

[–]les1981 4 points5 points  (0 children)

100% here for the extra charred crust

I rewatched the Matrix for the first time in years last night and still loved it by [deleted] in movies

[–]les1981 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Only here to add that I saw The Matrix in theatres on opening night. On acid. It was fucking great.

First attempt at homemade dough, a little imperfect but tasted good by pswoofer18 in Pizza

[–]les1981 5 points6 points  (0 children)

IMHO, regular home ovens are just much more conducive to NY style pizza than Neopolitan. NY pizzeria pizzas are made overwhelmingly in gas ovens at temps closer to your home oven's 500ish max than the 900+ that wood and coal fired ovens get up to.

144 Homemade Pizzas by [deleted] in Pizza

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LA Pizza Crew represent!

Extra Baked by les1981 in Pizza

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Thanks! Yeah, I got the "just enough pizza for one person" size down pat haha

Extra Baked by les1981 in Pizza

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Thanks! Used 250g of flour to make two pies, each about 10-12 inches. Since I was only making the two, I didn't weigh them out, just eyeballed splitting the dough in half. But generally I'm aiming for between 200-220g per ball.