Bryan,

Wow, that ciabatta looked to be more than 62% from the dough. Guess I shouldn't rely on eyeballing my dough much in the future!

I've done a ton of browsing over at pizzamaking...just need to get with it and register. I've already learned a ton there. Like you said, reminds me a lot of TVWB. Good exchange of ideas, no B.S.

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Originally posted by Phil R.:
Bryan,

Wow, that ciabatta looked to be more than 62% from the dough. Guess I shouldn't rely on eyeballing my dough much in the future!

I've done a ton of browsing over at pizzamaking...just need to get with it and register. I've already learned a ton there. Like you said, reminds me a lot of TVWB. Good exchange of ideas, no B.S.

The 62% hydration is what I used for a 14" pizza dough weight for you, since that's a good all around hydration dough that's easy to work with. That Ciabatta recipe is way higher than that I would guess. Yes it's very similar to here, not much BS and just great info.

Bryan,

Oops..I thought you were referring to the ciabatta recipe. I was like wow, only 62% for ciabatta?

I've played around with the Lehman dough calculator...it's great. When I was doing a lot of baking I had an excel "program" thing I was using. Had to reformat and lost it. I didn't really realize that the Lehman calculator also took into account dough weight v. size. Kind of a cool function.

Bryan is the one that recommended pizza screens and I have to say, they work great when doing pizza on the grill. I used an idea I think he had on another thread to put the pizza on a screen and then prop up on some empty tin cans to raise up off the grate and get it closer to the top of the grill. I made two pizzas last night on my Summit and they came out wonderful. See the pictures here:

Grilled Pizzas

For dough, I used the prepackaged from Trader Joe's. In the past, I found it very hard to stretch and have it keep it's shape. With the screens, they grab the dough and won't let it go back to original shape. All in all, they worked out great.

Thanks to all for their suggestions.

Bob

Great looking pizza Bryan and Robert.

Where did you purchased the pizza screens?

Evan,

I got mine on Amazon via a recommendation on this site. I think it was Bryan. Here is the link:

Pizza Screens

Good luck

Bob

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