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This video gives you easy step by step instructions on how to make pizza dough. This is educational as well as very hands on on. For this pizza dough you will be using 4 basic ingredients: flour, water, salt, yeast and oil. As with all pizza doughs, the oil is totally optional. The olive oil will give you a softer crust. For a harder crust you can entirely omit the oil. pizza on earth, Albert Grande The Pizza Promoter For more pizza magic...check out Pizza on the Grill >> Pizza on the Grill: 100 Feisty Fire-Roasted Recipes for Pizza & More

Christmas came a little early for me, this year, in the form of a brand new KitchenAide . Oh yeah. I was first introduced to the KitchenAide by Chef Peter when we co-taught a cooking class, a couple of years ago. One of his first recommendations was to make it our main kitchen appliance. We used it mix dough for pizza and pasta. We were able to make cookies and cakes. We even used one of the attachments to make sausage. This did it all, except clean itself. Over the years, I've made lots of pizza dough. I make the dough by hand, because I like the feel of mixing my own pizza dough. When you have a limited amount of time to teach a class, however, you need to save some steps. When I used the Kitchenaide to make dough, the whole process went much faster. After a short while, I became convinced. Chef Peter, was right. It became our most valued appliance. The students loved using it. It was easy to operate, and easy to clean. We really noticed a difference when we used it to make pa...