Jon F.'s Best Pizza Stone Pizza Tip

Jon F. explains the best tip for cooking pizza. You need to heat your oven as hot as it will go for at least an hour.

This is critical for making pizza. You Pizza Stone, needs at least an hour to be able to heat up to 500 degress F. Let me repeat that: your pizza stone needs to heat up at least an hour.

Remember: Put the pizza stone in the oven first, then turn the oven on.


Note that Jon F's oven goes to 550 degrees F. Jon states he wishes his oven heated up tp 900 degrees.




You can find more pizza stone tips and tricks here: Pizza Therapy How to Use and Clean a Pizza Stone.





Old Stone Oven 4467 14-Inch by 16-Inch Baking Stone

Jon F.'s Whole Wheat Pizza Dough

Making a good whole wheat pizza dough is difficult to say the least.
Due to the nature of whole wheat flour, the entire process requires addiditonal hydration and patience. Even my friend Peter Reinhart explained. how difficult the entire step by step procedure of making whole wheat pizza dough can be.

Our Whole Wheat expert Jon. F. seems to have this process down.

Jon F.'s Whole Wheat Pizza Dough

Ingredients:
3/4 cup King Arthur whole wheat flour or equiv.
3/4 cup King Arthur Unbleached white flour or equiv.
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon yeast
2/3 cup iced water

Directions

1. Mix all ingredients in a Kitchenaid mixer until  blended, (Recommend: KitchenAid KP26M1XNP Professional 600 Series 6-Quart Stand Mixer, Nickel Pearl (See all Stand Mixers) 
2. Knead mixture on floured board for a few minutes. 
3. Put in oiled bowl and cover with plastic wrap before putting in refrigerator for and 18 to 24 hour cold fermentation. 
4. Take out about one half hour before using.

The most important step of making dough for Jon F. is the cold ferment used to proof the dough.

In this video, Jon explains the entire process.